Victorian Studies Journals, Societies, and Series

Compiled by Patrick Leary

Journals

Students of nineteenth-century Britain are fortunate in having a number of scholarly journals to choose among as readers and writers. The following list connects you to an information page for each journal that explains how to subscribe as well as how to submit manuscripts. While only specifically 19th-century oriented journals are included here, broader publications like the Journal of British Studies, Book History, the Review of English Studies, Studies in English Literature, and of course many others, also publish articles on Victorian topics. Journals devoted to individual Victorian authors are a dwindling breed, but among the survivors are the venerable Dickensian and Dickens Quarterly, Brontë Studies, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, The Gaskell Journal, The Wilkie Collins Journal, and The Trollopian, published by the Trollope Society.

• 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
• BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
• Cusp: Late 19th/Early 20th-Century Cultures 
• Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
• The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale
• Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies
• Journal of Victorian Culture
• The Latchkey: Journal of New Woman Studies
• Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
• Nineteenth-Century Contexts
• Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
• Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Nineteenth-Century Prose
• Nineteenth Century Studies
• Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
• Romance, Revolution, and Reform
• Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
• Victorian Literature and Culture
• Victorian Network
• Victorian Periodicals Review
• Victorian Poetry
• Victorian Popular Fictions Journal
• Victorian Review
• Victorian Studies
• Victorians Institute Journal
• Victoriographies: A Journal of the Long Nineteenth Century

Societies

Every scholarly organization has its own history and dynamics, but all of them serve important functions for their members. Most of the societies listed below hold an annual conference. These conferences offer wonderful opportunities to share your own work and to learn about the work of others; many friendships, and many collaborative projects, have first begun at conferences. Since the pandemic of 2020-21, many conferences are either entirely online or feature a portion of the conference online. Nevertheless, they remain essential to the pursuit of Victorian research as a collective enterprise. A number of societies offer prizes for presentations, essays, and books. Small non-profits like these typically operate on very slender budgets, but RSVP, for example, is able to offer substantial funding in aid of research. University-based groups like those at Princeton and Rutgers often welcome input from Victorianists elsewhere, and some hold conferences that other scholars around the world are encouraged to attend. This list of societies includes only organizations devoted specifically to the 19th century, but many Victorianists also belong to groups like SHARP, as well as the large professional groups like MLA and AHA. In the U.S. and Canada, the North American Conference on British Studies holds an annual conference that includes work on 19th-century Britain.  PL

News of upcoming conferences and other events sponsored by these and other societies can frequently be found on the Victorian section of Penn's useful Call for Papers site, as well as NAVSA's blog, "Of Victorian Interest".  They can also be searched for on H-ANNOUNCE.

• Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
• Australasian Victorian Studies Association
• British Association for Victorian Studies
• Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
• International Centre for Victorian Women Writers
• Midwest Victorian Studies Association
• North American Victorian Studies Association
• Northern Nineteenth-Century Network
• Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
• Northeast Victorian Studies Association
• Princeton Victorian Colloquium
• Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
• Rutgers Nineteenth-Century Research Group
• Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
• Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
• Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
• Victorian Popular Fiction Association
• Victorian Studies Association of Ontario
• Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada

Publishers' Series

• Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series, Anthem Publishing
• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press
• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture, Edinburgh University Press
• International Nineteenth Century Studies Association Book Series, Clemson University Press
• McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature, McFarland & Company
• Nineteenth Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures, Edinburgh University Press
• Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan
• Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Routledge
• Series in Victorian Studies, Ohio University Press
• Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, Liverpool University Press
• Victorian Literature and Culture, University Press of Virginia

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