About the Journal
The Journal of Victorian Culture covers all aspects of nineteenth-century society, culture, and the material world including literature, art, performance, politics, science, medicine, technology, lived experience, and ideas.
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Victorian Music
Our music collection boasts work in art history, literary history, musicology and music history. Music as an aspect of Victorian culture has been less celebrated, and certainly less fully researched, than the so-called ‘sister arts’ of poetry and painting. We hope you’ll enjoy our ‘pop up anthology’ of musical research, and circulate it among your Victorianist – and musical – networks. Articles are free to read for a limited period of time.
Research on Victorian Periodicals
In honor of Professor Laurel Brake’s 80th birthday, JVC has published tributes from prominent scholars reflecting on her contributions to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals and the field of Victorian Studies. This supplemental pop-up anthology includes articles from the journal’s archive covering periodical studies, as well as related articles by Professor Brake.
Graduate Student Essay Prize
The aim of the prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. The Graduate Student Essay Prize for 2023-4 has now closed, and will re-open in 2025.
Journal of Victorian Culture Online
JVC online is a blog run by the Journal of Victorian Culture and welcomes posts on any 19th Century subject.
Digital Forum
Re-forming the Transnational Victorian Archive
The essays in this Digital Forum examine how re-forming the materials of three very different kinds of nineteenth-century reform work – penal correction, protest literature, and the development of women’s education – into digital databases and archives allows an examination of that work at new scales.
Digital Forum Archive
The Digital Forum provides an indispensable guide to how the nineteenth century will change as we encounter it in digital form. It brings together interested users, expert proponents, and the deeply sceptical to present a range of perspectives upon the difference that digitization might make to the discipline.
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