ResVic
The ResVic Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
WELCOME!
The Restoration to Victorian ("ResVic") Studies Reading Group at the University of Pennsylvania brings together graduate students and faculty from various disciplines to discuss writing and cultural production in the period from the Restoration through the Victorian era. The group provides a space to explore different theoretical and methodological approaches to Anglophone literature produced in England, Scotland, Ireland, the Caribbean and North America. Group activities include invited scholarly lectures from scholars worldwide and discussions of literary and critical texts. The group also provides a forum for scholars within the Penn community and beyond to present new work ("works-in-progress"), as well as hosts workshops focused on the state of the field and professionalization.
For event times and locations, as well as pre-circulated papers, please contact Ailin Jain to be added to the listserv.
Resources
Organizations
• ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
• ASECS: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• MLA: Modern Language Association
• NASSR: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
• NAVSA: North American Victorian Studies Association
• The Dickens Project
Links Pages
• Eighteenth-Century Resources, maintained by Jack Lynch: An extensive and various collection of links on all things 18th, including a comprehensive catalogue of Eighteenth-Century E-Texts--thank you Jack!
• Voice of the Shuttle Romantics Page, maintained by Alan Liu: An extensive collection of links to Romantic period e-text archives, author pages, organizations, and listsevs. Also helpful are the Restoration & 18th century and Victorian pages.
Upcoming Events
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Jessie Reeder (SUNY Binghamton): "Victorians in the River Plate"
February 20, 2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Past Events
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Sal Nicolazzo, "Chance of Storms: Olaudah Equiano’s Climate of Risk"
February 19, 2021 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm -
Featuring Guest Speaker Dr. Anahid Nersessian
November 12, 2020 - 4:45pm to 5:45pm -
Zachary Samalin, “Horizons of Expectoration: Nineteenth-Century Disgust and Its Afterlives
October 8, 2020 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Talk by Pearl Brilmyer and Filippo Trentin
September 30, 2019 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm -
ResVic: Discussion of Anderson's Imagined Communities
September 10, 2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm -
Talk by Kathryn Temple: “What's Love Got to Do With it? Desire, Disgust, and Feeling Just”
March 26, 2019 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Nasser Mufti, "C.L.R. James in the Nineteenth Century"
February 21, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:30pm -
Celebration and Discussion of Populating the Novel by Emily Steinlight
Special Meeting of the Res-Vic Working GroupDecember 6, 2018 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm -
Zach Fruit, "In Common: Land Enclosure and the Idea of the Rise of the Novel" WIP
November 27, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Kathryn Temple (Georgetown), "What's Love Got to Do With It? Desire, Disgust and Feeling Just."
November 15, 2018 - 6:15pm to 7:30pm