In Victorian use, speaker claimed a range of meanings. Some were long-established. ‘One who speaks or talks’ was, the OED confirms, a fundamental aspect of English. So, too, were senses which directed attention to public as well as private converse or which set out a range of qualitative patterns in relation to individual use. In… Continue reading Voicing the Text: Speech, Speakers, and the Performative Anthology – blog post by Lynda Mugglestone
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William Barnes and the Yola Language – blog post by John Blackmore
by John Blackmore One of the most exciting things about the Victorian Literary Languages project – aside from the strong case it sets out for a multilingual Four Nations Victorian Studies – is that it shines a spotlight on non-standard English in writing emanating from different corners of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales during the… Continue reading William Barnes and the Yola Language – blog post by John Blackmore
What is a Victorian Literary Language? – Blog Post by Gregory Tate and Karin Koehler
by Gregory Tate and Karin Koehler Ahead of our second workshop at Trinity College Dublin on 25 and 26 August, we (re-)consider the key questions our network seeks to answer. The first ‘Victorian Literary Languages’ workshop was held in St Andrews (and online) on 26 and 27 May 2022. It focused on Victorian literature’s interactions… Continue reading What is a Victorian Literary Language? – Blog Post by Gregory Tate and Karin Koehler
Discovering Literary Languages in the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
by Alison Chapman, University of Victoria, Canada Diverse literary languages are everywhere in Victorian era periodicals, and in particular featured in the enormous quantity of poems that circulated in serial print. Dialect poems, verse translations of non-standard English poetry, and regional and Four Nations poets, are integral to popular poetry cultures, and form some… Continue reading Discovering Literary Languages in the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
(Un)settling the Eastern Cape: Thomas Pringle and the Translocal – Blog Post by Lara Atkin
by Lara Atkin Since the beginning of this century, Victorianists have been struggling to come up with a nomenclature that captures the variety of ways in which Britain was imbricated, culturally and economically, with the world beyond its borders. Cosmopolitanism was fashionable for a time, speaking as it does to those writers, like Vernon Lee,… Continue reading (Un)settling the Eastern Cape: Thomas Pringle and the Translocal – Blog Post by Lara Atkin
Nineteenth-Century Sources in Faclair na Gàidhlig – Blog Post by Olga Szczesnowicz
by Olga Szczesnowicz Faclair na Gàidhlig is going to be the first historical dictionary of Scottish Gaelic. The previous attempt to create a Gaelic dictionary on historical principles dates back to 1966, when Professor Derick S. Thomson established the Historical Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic (HDSG) in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. One… Continue reading Nineteenth-Century Sources in Faclair na Gàidhlig – Blog Post by Olga Szczesnowicz
Getting Started – Blog Post by Karin Koehler and Gregory Tate
by Karin Koehler and Gregory Tate ‘What would a four nations Victorian Studies look like?’ This question, raised during a panel on Victorian Scotland at the 2019 conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies in Dundee, was the starting point for this research network on Victorian Literary Languages. As Aileen Fyfe noted during the… Continue reading Getting Started – Blog Post by Karin Koehler and Gregory Tate