Roger Hansford explores how Philip Klitz reflected and fed a potent stereotype through music of African Americans by sustaining racist themes and images in the popular-cultural imagination. This article has 9 embedded audio samples, so tune in! Read here: academic.oup.com/jvc/article/29…

New National Trust for Scotland resource Robert Burns Online with 2700 items catalogued launched with support from major Scottish donor & NTS USA: a great new archive for Burns Studies Robert Burns C21 Pauline Mackay Gerard Carruthers Craig Lamont Rhona Brown Ronnie Young
nts.org.uk/collections/ro…

According to K. Wilkins, “the daily traffic jams witnessed across the UK are not a solely modern phenomenon.”

If you are interested in the traffic situation in Victorian London click here to read Wilkins’s full essay from 2011: jvc.oup.com/2011/05/31/tra…

Photo credit: from essay.

An article by Peter Fifield “…suggest[s] that the distinctive qualities of bacteriological science inflect the plot and style of [five Victorian texts] as well as the nature of their fictional antagonists.”

Abstract here: doi.org/10.1093/jvcult…

In a #bookreview by Martha Vicinus: '… [The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930 by Sarah Parker] looks closely at how lesbian poets created supple, variable relations with an inspiring muse in spite of numerous social and personal difficulties.”

doi.org/10.1080/135555…

#Caturday -- Joseph Southall's future wife with her cat, in 'Hortus Conclusus' (private garden), 1898. Supposed to be idyllic but looks a bit cramped, doesn't it? victorianweb.org/painting/south… Thanks The Fine Art Society!

Aisik Maiti discusses Bankimchandra Chatterjee's fiction, exploring how his 'fiction manifests and embodies an entire tradition of nationalist thought which gained currency in the latter half of the nineteenth century.' Read here: jvc.oup.com/2022/04/22/ban…

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My Jnl.VictorianCulture article 'Seen through Deep Time: Occult Clairvoyance and Palaeoscientific Imagination' is now readable online (doi.org/10.1093/jvcult…). It travels from the geology of Bulwer-Lytton's 1842 romance Zanoni to the akashic researches of Theosophists in the 1890s.