ResVic
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 Peter Diamond or Hannah LeClair 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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A Virtual Discussion of John Ruskin with Graduate Consortium
April 7, 2023 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm -
A Work-in-Progress by Molly Young
April 21, 2023 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Past Events
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S. Pearl Brilmyer (Penn) Frog Faced: Spontaneity and Character from Eliot to Stein
November 15, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm -
Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter/CUNY): "Liberal Empire's Queer Counterpublic"
October 20, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
David Kurnick (Rutgers)
“The Demographic Passions of the Realist Novel”April 21, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Abigail Zitin (Rutgers)
April 7, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Olivia Moy (CUNY- Lehman)
March 25, 2016 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm -
Travis Lau (Penn)
March 3, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Al Coppola (CUNY-John Jay)
February 25, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Sean Barry (Longwood)
February 11, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Claude Willan, Princeton University
WIP: "Bloody Ontology”December 3, 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Michael Gamer, UPenn
Talk: "Re-collections in Tranquility: The History of a Book"November 12, 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm