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		<title>Links Round-up: Digital Platforms, Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Publishing</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/future-scholarly-publishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Esmail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks, I have read some thought-provoking articles/essays/posts on scholarly publishing. My ideas are still percolating but I invite you to check out these links and contribute your thoughts in the comments about some of the questions raised by these writers: If, as the MLA has repeatedly recommended, we should be moving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1456&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFP: Victorian Thresholds: Between Literature and Anthropology, 28 April 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Coll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Victorian Studies Association of Ontario is soliciting paper proposals for its annual conference, which is happening on April 28th this year, at York University&#8217;s beautiful Glendon campus in Toronto. The call for papers might be of interest to those working on or around 19th-century borders, boundaries, hybrids, peripheries, dusks, dawns, doorways, vestibules, amphibians, fringes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1445&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dickens&#8217;s 200th Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenbourrier</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dickens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Dickens beat out Keira Knightley for the lead story in the entertainment section of the Toronto Star today, with an article featured here on a local collector of his works.  The paper also had a cool map of places in Toronto that Dickens visited on his 1842 visit to North America, which I don&#8217;t see reproduced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1439&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFP: Special Issue of Women&#8217;s Writing on Dinah Mulock Craik</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenbourrier</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[archives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sketch of Dinah Mulock, 1845, by Amelia Robertson Hill, National Portrait Gallery Guest Editor: Karen Bourrier, Consulting Editor: Sally Mitchell Throughout her lifetime and since her death, Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) has been considered either ahead of her time or a touchstone for all things Victorian. Henry James, for example, assessed her work as “kindly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1402&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandowing and Other Resolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Constance Crompton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last three years writing about the origins of bodybuilding as a middle-class pursuit. The project has been a pleasure: I&#8217;ve been able to splosh about in seas of Victorian ephemera, most of which did not turn out to be immediately germane, but which were still well worth the wade. As we head [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1379&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heroic Life of George Gissing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Coll</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of Karen&#8217;s Holiday Reading post, I thought I&#8217;d offer a few words on a book in which I&#8217;ve been luxuriating this holiday season: the first volume of The Heroic Life of George Gissing. Pierre Coustillas&#8217;s eagerly-anticipated, triple-decker biographical tour-de-force has been several decades in the making, and, judging by this first installment, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1370&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Reading</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/holiday-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenbourrier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byatt, from the Guardian I&#8217;m embarrassed to say that I read about two non-Victorian novels a year, and that even those novels are often related to the Victorian novel stylistically or thematically.  A perennial favourite of mine is the contemporary realist novelist Margaret Drabble, especially The Peppered Moth (whose Darwinian themes are related to The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1360&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenge of Writing About George Eliot&#8217;s Writing</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/writing-about-george-eliots-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Esmail</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Eliot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Tedra Osell has noted at Crooked Timber, Ta-Nehisi Coates has been posting sporadically about his experience reading George Eliot&#8217;s Middlemarch for the first time. (Osell also helpfully provides links to Coates&#8217;s posts on Middlemarch). I have enjoyed reading Coates&#8217;s attempts to wrestle with what it is about Eliot&#8217;s prose that makes it so, well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1341&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Papers: Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/call-for-papers-neo-victorian-networks-epistemologies-aesthetics-and-ethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam with a colleague and I hope it will be of interest to writers and readers of the Floating Academy. Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics University of Amsterdam June 13-15, 2012 This conference seeks to assess the state of contemporary neo-Victorian literature, film, television and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1338&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ouida</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/ouida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenbourrier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The November 21st issue of The New Yorker had a poem about Ouida by Christopher Stace, in case any of you missed it. On First Seeing Ouida&#8217;s Tomb at Bagni de Lucca Nature she knew by heart; on birds and flowers She could discourse for hours and hours and hours. Sententious, sentimental, repetitious, she Would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1334&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin and the Mechanisms of Human Expression</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/darwin-and-the-mechanisms-of-human-expression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Brophy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent bout of research on photography and duplicity has led me back to Cambridge’s indomitable Darwin Correspondence Project. This editorial project is an extraordinarily valuable resource for Victorianist researchers, but I’m especially impressed by the compelling points of access the site provides into a mass of information that might otherwise seem quite imposing. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1274&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victorians in The New Yorker</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/victorians-in-the-new-yorker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenbourrier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Karen Bourrier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little behind on my New Yorker reading these days, which is too bad because there have been a huge number of Victorian-related articles lately. (I&#8217;m counting one on H.G. Wells from the October 17th issue as Victorian, never mind that he published most in the 20th century.) Henry James was a through-line in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1270&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Victorian Studies: Papers from BAVS online</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/the-value-of-victorian-studies-papers-from-bavs-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Esmail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Journal of Victorian Culture Online site recently published four papers given at the 2011 BAVS conference on “The Value of Victorian Studies.” I recommend the whole series of papers, by Shearer West, Linda Bree, Sarah Parker and Regenia Gagnier, on various aspects of the question of the value and impact of our field. While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1265&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFP of Interest: ACCUTE/NAVSA Joint Session: Victorian Technologies and the Technologies of Victorian Studies</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/cfp-of-interest-accutenavsa-joint-session-victorian-technologies-and-the-technologies-of-victorian-studies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Esmail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From railways to telegraphy, typewriters to telephones, Victorians were engaged with new, and developing, technologies of connection and communication. Innovations in technology over the course of the Victorian period influenced wider cultural ideas of connection, of scale and of human capacity. Like the Victorians, researchers in Victorian Studies are using new technologies of reading, writing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1260&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Postures</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/reading-postures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenbourrier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Harvard English Institute two weeks ago, and intended to blog about it immediately.  Better late than never I hope! The conference draws scholars from all around Boston as well as the U.S. and Canada, and makes me wonder if this is what a more local conference culture is like, rather than geographically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1255&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada 2012 Conference</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/victorian-studies-association-of-western-canada-2012-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following call for papers seems ideal for all of us here at the Floating Academy, and to many of our readers as well. I hope to see you all there next April. CFP: VSAWC Conference, “Victorian Media,” (Victoria, British Columbia, April 2012) The Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada invites proposals for a conference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1241&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-Reader Update</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/e-reader-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenbourrier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this time last year, I acquired an e-reader, which I blogged about here, and I thought it might be time for an update on whether the technology was really worth the $150 I shelled out.  Without a doubt the answer is yes. I have learned a few things about myself with this e-reader. First, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1235&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victorian Curiosities at the Courtauld Gallery</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/victorian-curiosities-at-the-courtauld-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May, I went to see the exhibit, “Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours” at the Courtauld Gallery in London. Many were works apparently shown for the first time. There were some beautiful Turner watercolours depicting Swiss scenes, such as “The Fall of the Rhone at Schffhausen” and “Brunnen, Lake Lucerne.” I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1220&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Novel Forms of Immanent Death&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/novel-forms-of-immanent-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Novel Forms of Immanent Death” My thoughts on accidental phenomena in Victorian material culture have been a long time coming, so I apologize for my inability to sit my butt down and write. Having done so, finally, I want to focus on a peculiar, but actually quite commonsense, aspect of Victorian social theories of accidents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1205&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out-of-place technological artifacts and productive unease</title>
		<link>http://floatingacademy.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/out-of-place-technological-artifacts-and-productive-unease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alangaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gregory’s last post on Babbage and railroads, illustrated by that arresting Montparnasse train wreck photo, got me thinking about Victorian visual technologies and their ability to register accidents as phenomena. At the same time, Daniel’s analogy between aircraft data recorders (black boxes), on the one hand, and Babbage’s proposal for their 19th-century railroad equivalents, on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floatingacademy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7724907&amp;post=1193&amp;subd=floatingacademy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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