Hannah Schultz's article "Cut Off from the Green Reconciling Earth": Patriarchal Preservation and Ecological Subjectivity in Aurora Leigh"

Plus reviews of recent books by Denae Dyck, Ben Parker, Adrian Desmond, Alexander Bubb, and @njdames.bsky.social

Next up in this issue, a special essay cluster edited by Brooke Cameron and Lin Young, featuring articles by Cameron and Young, Molly Boggs, and Hannah Mummert.

The issue also features Olivia Krauze's Hamilton Prize-winning article "What is a Violent Emotion?" and +

The forum on reproductive and sexual justice features essays by Livia Woods, Ashley Miller, @drrd.bsky.social, Erin Spampinato, @sdraucker.bsky.social, Dara Rossman Regaignon, @dustinfriedman.bsky.social, Riley McGuire, Simon Joyce, @alexisdoeslit.bsky.social, and Jill R. Ehnenn

To learn more about the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and past conferences, please visit our website (link in profile!). To learn more about our organization’s journal, Victorian Review, please visit: victorianreview.org

Our conference will be held at the Alt Hotel in downtown Winnipeg. Graduate students and underemployed scholars will have the opportunity to apply for funding to reduce the cost of participation. Please direct any questions to conference host Dr. Vanessa Warne (vanessa.warne@umanitoba.ca). +

Please send a proposal of no more than 200 words, accompanied by a brief biographical statement, to vsawc2026@gmail.com.

In the case of panels or workshops, please share participants’ materials in a single email. Please submit proposals no later than December 1, 2025.

We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and workshops that explore the theme of Victorian Trade. Established scholars, emerging scholars, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to apply. +

hoarding, frauds, swindles, and scams
neo-Victorian authors who ‘trade’ in Victorian tropes
the trading of ideas in the context of contemporary or Victorian-era education +

non-commercial forms of exchange, including gift culture
material culture and craft
stock exchanges and banking
stamps, monetary systems, and the gold standard
transportation and communication systems
street trade, peddling, arcades, and department stores
mutuality, trust, distrust, and betrayal +

trade unions, guilds, and apprenticeships
vocational schools, workingmen’s libraries, and reading rooms for tradespeople
trade publications
the emergence of new professions and professional identities
national and regional borders
physical and conceptual borders +

the movement of raw materials, manufactured goods, and knowledge between people and places
treaties, agreements, and contracts
the trade in enslaved people and products of their labour
bartering and bargaining
the nineteenth-century book trade
the nineteenth-century art market +