Karin Koehler and I are inviting chapter proposals for a book titled Literature and Multilingualism in the Four Nations 1800-1900, building on the @VicLitLang1 research network. Deadline 31 July 2025. Please share widely!

Karin Koehler and I are inviting chapter proposals for a book titled Literature and Multilingualism in the Four Nations 1800-1900, building on the @VicLitLang1 research network. If this is of interest, please email us. And please share widely!

The latest issue of @19_birkbeck, edited by me & Karin Koehler, has just been published! It's based on our work on the "Victorian Literary Languages" research network (@VicLitLang1), and we're very grateful to our fantastic contributors.

I have absolutely loved being the General Editor of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19_birkbeck @BirkbeckC19 Thank you to all the authors and editors. I have inside knowledge about future issues 😜and they are brilliant. @Trabbs_Bhoy: over to you!

Are you working on a digital project that includes colonial, transnational, or BIPOC periodicals? @LaraAtkin and @mattpoland, guest editors of our upcoming special issue “Race and Transnationalism in Periodical Studies” would like to hear from you!

Karin and Greg are now looking forward to co-editing a special issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century, which will showcase research on the languages of nineteenth-century literature @viclitlang1

This hybrid, bilingual event adopted a four nations perspective-with a global twist-to explore the theme of ‘Mobility and Communication’, featuring presentations from linguists, historians, and literary scholars.

The third workshop of the AHRC-funded research network ‘Victorian Literary Languages’, jointly run by Dr Karin Koehler (Bangor) and Dr Gregory Tate (St Andrews) took place earlier this month ⁦@BangorUni⁩ Reichel Hall.

Day 2 of the @VicLitLang1 workshop starting with @LiveseyRuth talking about Eliot's Felix Holt and connecting micro-regions throughout the narrative

An exciting programme ahead for day 2 of our Bangor workshop! https://t.co/Mynf38aQd8

Our third workshop is happening at Bangor University, and online, on 12-13 January 2023. The programme can be viewed here: https://t.co/Mynf38aQd8. If you'd like to attend online, please DM us!

Take a moment to enjoy Alison Chapman’s informative post on the Digital Victorian Periodical Project (DVPP)—an exciting case study of the ways in which the DVPP is helpful in exploring Victorian literary languages and poetry. https://t.co/POiuXPtAIF

Some fantastic reading material from Lara Atkins, whose blog post reads Thomas Pringle's South African poetry and its multilingualism through the lens of the translocal. https://t.co/AvfD0ekOtH

Read Olga Szczesnowicz’s blog post on the publication of the Faclair na Gàidhlig and its use of the nineteenth-century sources: https://t.co/9vHxSCV16f

Our latest blog post is by Prof Lynda Mugglestone, on the popularity of "speakers", or "performative anthologies" of literary language, in the nineteenth century.

Our final workshop will be happening in Bangor on 12 & 13 January 2023! If you'd like to join in our conversation about literature, languages, mobility, and communication in the nineteenth century, please send us a proposal by Friday 18 November.

Exciting news! 🌊We are launching our call for workshop participants today. 16 fully funded places available for researchers working on any aspect of Scotland's waters, seas, and marine environments in the 19thC. Simply fill in the form here to apply:

We have a fantastic new post on our blog: Lynda Mugglestone on pronunciation, literary eloquence, and the Victorian genre of the "speaker":

I'm very excited about the third @VicLitLang1 workshop at Bangor on 12-13 January, which will focus on Victorian literature, languages, mobility, and communication. If you'd like to join, either in person or online, please email us by 18 November!

The article starts by tracing Hardy's views on Victorian debates about linguistic purism and grammatical prescriptivism, and then focuses in on his use of the subjunctive, and Dorset dialect, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.