Yi-Chen Andrea Lay
@yi-chenlay.bsky.social
English PhD Candidate and Victorianist @ Indiana University Bloomington
Managing Editor @victstudies.bsky.social
Managing Editor @victstudies.bsky.social
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Good morning! Did you know that our latest issue 67.2 can now be accessed through Project MUSE online? Feel free to check it out and let us know which article you enjoyed the most in the comments below. ⬇️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55623
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55623
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Good morning! Did you know that our latest issue 67.2 can now be accessed through Project MUSE online? Feel free to check it out and let us know which article you enjoyed the most in the comments below. ⬇️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55623
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55623
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Check out the IU Press blog post for our new issue 67.1 🎉 A big thank you to Mark Taylor, coeditor and contributor to the Victorian Idealisms Forum, for writing the post. His article, "Introduction: Victorian Idealisms," is now open-access on Project Muse.
See links in the comment section.
See links in the comment section.
July 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Check out the IU Press blog post for our new issue 67.1 🎉 A big thank you to Mark Taylor, coeditor and contributor to the Victorian Idealisms Forum, for writing the post. His article, "Introduction: Victorian Idealisms," is now open-access on Project Muse.
See links in the comment section.
See links in the comment section.
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Here are some of the book reviews included in 66.4 of Victorian Studies! Take some time to read them as well as the other 26 reviews in this issue!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
April 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here are some of the book reviews included in 66.4 of Victorian Studies! Take some time to read them as well as the other 26 reviews in this issue!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
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Read the fourth featured essay in 66.4: Helena Michie’s “Deep History, Surface Histories: British Heritage and Arab Traces in Sicily 1870–1930,” which analyzes British travel writing on Sicily and its connections to British heritage.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
April 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Read the fourth featured essay in 66.4: Helena Michie’s “Deep History, Surface Histories: British Heritage and Arab Traces in Sicily 1870–1930,” which analyzes British travel writing on Sicily and its connections to British heritage.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
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Read the third featured essay in 66.4: Anna Barton’s “Editing Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: The Lyric as Archive,” which uses manuscript materials from Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to propose a model of archival lyric.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
April 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Read the third featured essay in 66.4: Anna Barton’s “Editing Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: The Lyric as Archive,” which uses manuscript materials from Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to propose a model of archival lyric.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
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Check out the second featured essay in 66.4: @jakeromanow.bsky.social Jacob Romanow’s “Kipling’s Administrative Imaginary: Imperial Ignorance as Information Management.” Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
April 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Check out the second featured essay in 66.4: @jakeromanow.bsky.social Jacob Romanow’s “Kipling’s Administrative Imaginary: Imperial Ignorance as Information Management.” Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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New blog post alert!
Head to the IU Press blog to read Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen's post on their article, "What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch," which is featured in our latest issue.
Link to blog post: iupress.org/connect/blog...
Head to the IU Press blog to read Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen's post on their article, "What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch," which is featured in our latest issue.
Link to blog post: iupress.org/connect/blog...
April 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New blog post alert!
Head to the IU Press blog to read Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen's post on their article, "What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch," which is featured in our latest issue.
Link to blog post: iupress.org/connect/blog...
Head to the IU Press blog to read Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen's post on their article, "What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch," which is featured in our latest issue.
Link to blog post: iupress.org/connect/blog...
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66.4 Featured Essay:
Check out Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen’s article on quotation practices and the production of collective knowledge, “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch.” The essay is open-access on Project MUSE, see link in comments.
Check out Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen’s article on quotation practices and the production of collective knowledge, “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch.” The essay is open-access on Project MUSE, see link in comments.
April 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
66.4 Featured Essay:
Check out Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen’s article on quotation practices and the production of collective knowledge, “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch.” The essay is open-access on Project MUSE, see link in comments.
Check out Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen’s article on quotation practices and the production of collective knowledge, “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch.” The essay is open-access on Project MUSE, see link in comments.
Reposted by Yi-Chen Andrea Lay
Can you spot not one, but two squirrels?
We found a furry friend as we photographed the cover of our newest VS issue, 66.4! Be sure to check our social media for more content about the featured essays. Also, check out the link below for the full issue on Project MUSE!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
We found a furry friend as we photographed the cover of our newest VS issue, 66.4! Be sure to check our social media for more content about the featured essays. Also, check out the link below for the full issue on Project MUSE!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
April 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Can you spot not one, but two squirrels?
We found a furry friend as we photographed the cover of our newest VS issue, 66.4! Be sure to check our social media for more content about the featured essays. Also, check out the link below for the full issue on Project MUSE!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
We found a furry friend as we photographed the cover of our newest VS issue, 66.4! Be sure to check our social media for more content about the featured essays. Also, check out the link below for the full issue on Project MUSE!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
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Today is World Theatre Day! To celebrate this day, read Michael Meeuwis’s “‘The Theatre Royal Back Drawing-Room’: Professionalizing Domestic Entertainment in Victorian Acting Manuals” and Gregory Vargo’s “Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt.”
March 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Today is World Theatre Day! To celebrate this day, read Michael Meeuwis’s “‘The Theatre Royal Back Drawing-Room’: Professionalizing Domestic Entertainment in Victorian Acting Manuals” and Gregory Vargo’s “Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt.”
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Make sure to check your mail! The newest issue of Victorian Studies, 66.4, has been shipped and should be arriving in your mailbox soon.
March 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Make sure to check your mail! The newest issue of Victorian Studies, 66.4, has been shipped and should be arriving in your mailbox soon.
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It’s Women’s History Month! To honor the women who have come before us and who have helped us get to where we are, read about the impact that women had in the Victorian Era in the articles linked below.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
March 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s Women’s History Month! To honor the women who have come before us and who have helped us get to where we are, read about the impact that women had in the Victorian Era in the articles linked below.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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International Women’s Day is just around the corner! Here is an article about a Victorian female author, Christina Rossetti. In Ashley Miller’s article, she discusses how Christina Rossetti’s poetry about fruitlessness and waste can provide a deeper understanding of female corporeality.
March 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
International Women’s Day is just around the corner! Here is an article about a Victorian female author, Christina Rossetti. In Ashley Miller’s article, she discusses how Christina Rossetti’s poetry about fruitlessness and waste can provide a deeper understanding of female corporeality.
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Whether you are writing, reading, or even crafting, paper has been an influential product throughout history. If you are interested in learning more about the publishing and paper industries in Victorian England, read “New Grub Street’s Ecologies of Paper” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
February 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Whether you are writing, reading, or even crafting, paper has been an influential product throughout history. If you are interested in learning more about the publishing and paper industries in Victorian England, read “New Grub Street’s Ecologies of Paper” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
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Victorian Studies is launching its online submission portal! Starting March 1, 2025, please use our online portal for all submissions to the journal: scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/...
There you can also find our style guide, as well as links to our IU Press blog and Project Muse archive.
There you can also find our style guide, as well as links to our IU Press blog and Project Muse archive.
February 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Victorian Studies is launching its online submission portal! Starting March 1, 2025, please use our online portal for all submissions to the journal: scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/...
There you can also find our style guide, as well as links to our IU Press blog and Project Muse archive.
There you can also find our style guide, as well as links to our IU Press blog and Project Muse archive.
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In honor of London Fashion Week, here are two past articles “ReFashioning Men: Fashion, Masculinity, and the Cultivation of the Male Consumer in Britain, 1860-1914” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... or “Clothing Napoleonic History in Vanity Fair and the Trumpet Major” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
February 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In honor of London Fashion Week, here are two past articles “ReFashioning Men: Fashion, Masculinity, and the Cultivation of the Male Consumer in Britain, 1860-1914” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... or “Clothing Napoleonic History in Vanity Fair and the Trumpet Major” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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To those who are thankful Valentine’s Day has passed, it’s the perfect time to read this humorous Victorian broadside ballad, “The Love Letter. The lady's maid - the secret found out!!! or, A married man caught in a trap.”
Image from London Low Life
Image from London Low Life
February 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
To those who are thankful Valentine’s Day has passed, it’s the perfect time to read this humorous Victorian broadside ballad, “The Love Letter. The lady's maid - the secret found out!!! or, A married man caught in a trap.”
Image from London Low Life
Image from London Low Life
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In honor of Charles Dickens’s upcoming birthday, check out Eleanor Courtemanche’s article, “Payback Time: Dickens and Revolution.” This article discusses the political aspects of A Tale of Two Cities and provides a new perspective on the novel. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
February 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In honor of Charles Dickens’s upcoming birthday, check out Eleanor Courtemanche’s article, “Payback Time: Dickens and Revolution.” This article discusses the political aspects of A Tale of Two Cities and provides a new perspective on the novel. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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To ring in the new semester, check out Abigail Droge’s article, “Reading George Eliot with Victorian College Students” from Issue 63.2. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to not only read about past students but imagine future generations of scholars to come! muse.jhu.edu/article/801003
January 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
To ring in the new semester, check out Abigail Droge’s article, “Reading George Eliot with Victorian College Students” from Issue 63.2. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to not only read about past students but imagine future generations of scholars to come! muse.jhu.edu/article/801003
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Victorian Era medicine looks quite different from today! If you would like to read more about some of the medical ideologies of the time and their effects on literature, read “Spiritual Pathology: Priests, Physicians, and The Way of All Flesh” from issue 54.4. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
January 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Victorian Era medicine looks quite different from today! If you would like to read more about some of the medical ideologies of the time and their effects on literature, read “Spiritual Pathology: Priests, Physicians, and The Way of All Flesh” from issue 54.4. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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66.3’s final essay cluster, “Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies,” is organized and introduced by Carolyn Lesjak, and features essays written by Colton Valentine @, Sourav Chatterjee, and Cherrie Kwok @cherriekwok.bsky.social.
January 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
66.3’s final essay cluster, “Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies,” is organized and introduced by Carolyn Lesjak, and features essays written by Colton Valentine @, Sourav Chatterjee, and Cherrie Kwok @cherriekwok.bsky.social.
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66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.
January 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.
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In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3!
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
January 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3!
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
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New issue alert!
66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.
66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.
January 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New issue alert!
66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.
66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.