INTRODUCTION: VICTORIAN STUDIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Williams
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
Selection Of

THE IDEA FOR THIS CLUSTER of work had its origins in a session of the 1996 Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, D. C., where the editors of Victorian Literature and Culture organized a panel devoted to the topic at hand: “Victorian Studies and Cultural Studies.” The panel presentations and the post-panel discussion were extremely stimulating, and it was clear that the rich topic wanted further consideration. The following selection of essays, gathered together under this journal’s special feature, the “Editors’ Topic,” is the result. Here, then, are four articles representing a range of practice — though not, by any means, the entire range of practice — in the intersecting fields of Victorian studies and cultural studies. The articles are followed by fourteen forum essays presenting an array of pressing issues, arguments, and sharp opinions centering in the relations — past, present, and potential — between Victorian studies and cultural studies. Three of the following eighteen pieces were presented (and those in shorter, nascent form) at the MLA: Mary Ellis Gibson’s article on Henry Martyn, Jane Eyre, and Missionary Biography, Kristen Leaver’s consideration of Victorian melodrama, and my brief ruminations on the concepts of “discourse” and “genre.” All the rest were commissioned for this issue of Victorian Literature and Culture.

Editorial Policy of PMLA

PMLA ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 74 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 488-488
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Younger Men ◽  
Selection Of

We Venture to reaffirm the policy which has guided the selection of articles during the past decade, namely, that PMLA should reflect the most distinguished American scholarship in the modern languages and literatures. It is not a place for beginners to try their wings, unless those wings are used for sure and significant flight; and it is not a place for established scholars to publish their incidental writings, unless those writings compare in excellence and value with those of younger men. As the official Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PMLA should publish to the learned world the most important work of members of the Association.

Report of the South Central Modern Language Association

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-537
Author(s):  
Richard Hauer Costa
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Committee Meeting ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
South Central ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Rice University ◽  
Full Day ◽  
Executive Committee Meeting ◽  
Selection Of

The 1975 SCMLA convention—11-13 December in New Orleans (Fairmont Hotel)—saw the official transfer of the Executive Secretariat office from Rice University to Texas A & M University. James A. Castañeda, who completed an unprecedented three terms (near nine years) in the office, stepped down officially after the SCMLA Executive Committee meeting. The new executive secretary is Richard Hauer Costa, professor of English, Texas A & M University. Costa spoke briefly at the membership meeting luncheon the last full day of the convention. The bid of Texas A & M, which included the selection of Costa for the position of Executive Secretary-Treasurer, was accepted in May of 1975 but was not official until the end of the 1975 meeting.

ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1998

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-569
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Donaldson ◽  
Dominic Bisignano ◽  
Melissa Brotton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Victorian Poetry ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
Century Literature

The following abbreviations appear in this year’s bibliography:BSN Browning Society Notes. DAI Dissertation Abstracts International. N&Q Notes and Queries. NCL Nineteenth Century Literature. RES Review of English Studies. VLC Victorian Literature and Culture. VP Victorian Poetry. VS Victorian StudiesAn asterisk* indicates that we have not seen the item. Cross references with citation numbers between 51 and 70 followed by a colon (e.g., C68:) refer to William S. Peterson’s Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography, 1951–1970 (New York: Browning Institute, 1974); higher numbers refer to Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830–1950, compiled by L. N. Broughton, C. S. Northup, and Robert Pearsall (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1953).

scholarly journals Editorial Policy of PMLA

PMLA ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Younger Men ◽  
Selection Of

We venture to reaffirm the policy which has guided the selection of articles during the past decade, namely, that PMLA should reflect the most distinguished American scholarship in the modern languages and literatures. It is not a place for beginners to try their wings, unless those wings are used for sure and significant flight; and it is not a place for established scholars to publish their incidental writings, unless those writings compare in excellence and value with those of younger men. As the official Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PMLA should publish to the learned world the most important work of members of the Association.

ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1996

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-633
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Donaldson ◽  
Melissa Brotton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽  
Victorian Poetry ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
Century Literature

The following abbreviations appear in this year’s bibliography:BSN Browning Society NotesDAI Dissertation Abstracts InternationalNCL Nineteenth Century LiteratureTLS Times Literary SupplementVLC Victorian Literature and CultureVP Victorian PoetryVR Victorian ReviewVS Victorian StudiesAn asterisk* indicates that we have not seen the item. Cross references with citation numbers between 51 and 70 followed by a colon (e.g., C68:) refer to William S. Peterson’s Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography, 1951–1970 (New York: Browning Institute, 1974); higher numbers refer to Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830–1950, compiled by L. N. Broughton, C. S. Northup, and Robert Pearsall (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1953).

Editorial Policy of PMLA

PMLA ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 624-624
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Younger Men ◽  
Selection Of

WE VENTURE to reaffirm the policy which has guided the selection of articles during the past decade, namely, that PMLA should reflect the most distinguished American scholarship in the modern languages and literatures. It is not a place for beginners to try their wings, unless those wings are used for sure and significant flight; and it is not a place for established scholars to publish their incidental writings, unless those writings compare in excellence and value with those of younger men. As the official Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PMLA should publish to the learned world the most important work of members of the Association.

CULTURAL STUDIES, VICTORIAN STUDIES, AND FORMALISM

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Loesberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Aesthetic Form

VICTORIAN STUDIES, in its longstanding resistance to the formalist study of Victorian literature, has to an extent been re-enacting the anxiety of mid-Victorian poets and novelists about being entrapped in a world of art. That anxiety notoriously defined the Victorian resistance to their Romantic forebears (think of Tennyson’s and Arnold’s well-documented, ambiguous attitudes toward Wordsworth and Keats or even Dickens’s satire of Leigh Hunt as Skimpole in Bleak House). And, predictably enough, it led to the backlash of the late-century aestheticism. If one positions the anti-formalism of the various genres of historicism and cultural studies now current in the study of Victorian literature as current versions of that Victorian anxiety at being hermetically enclosed in beautiful but empty forms, then surely an aestheticist and formalist backlash is more than overdue. And, rather than taking an analytical or neutrally critical response to this flux and reflux, I intend to espouse just such a backlash. If backlash implies partialness, the potential partiality of formalism is, I think, one of its less recognized values. Indeed, I will argue, a return to a consideration of aesthetic form may, in its recognition of its own limits, return a genuine interdisciplinarity to Victorian studies, if one intends by interdisciplinary studies not the work of literary scholars treating non-literary texts, but the participation of scholars from different disciplines with different and possibly conflicting grounding questions, concerns and modes of analysis in the study of the same subject matter.

scholarly journals Mini-Cluster on Teaching about the 1%, the Rich, the Upper Class, the Ruling Class

2015 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Marcial González ◽  
Greg Meyerson ◽  
Richard Ohmann
Keyword(s):  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Class System ◽  
The Rich

Marcial González, Greg Meyerson, and Richard Ohmann worked together on these three articles. We spoke on a panel organized by the Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association for MLA's 2014 convention. Our topic was “Teaching About the 1%, the Rich, the Upper Class, the Ruling Class . . . . " As that list suggests, we meant to explore common ways of conceptualizing the wealthiest people in the U. S., and in capitalist society generally. We argued that the best way is to see them structurally, as integral to a class system. And we sketched out ways for teachers to do that. 

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