Project MUSE®: Victorian Poetry - Latest Articles
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987310
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On August 5, 2025, members of the VICTORIA listserv received a surprising query. Ruth McAdams was on the hunt for something unusual: neither instances of a particular phenomenon in Victorian cultural objects nor places she might go to better flesh out some historicist conundrum but, rather, sources where “the scholar explicitly comments on, reflects on, or even just mentions their own working conditions.” McAdams expressed particular interest in sources that do this “in the body” or main text as opposed to the acknowledgments section, where such remarks are habitually quarantined (if they are made at all).1 A handful of on-list responses followed with just a few possible citations. Some pointed to Victorian-era
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/204/image/coversmallIntroduction: The Material Conditions of Victorian Poetry2026-04-02text/htmlen-USIntroduction: The Material Conditions of Victorian Poetry2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®534982026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Reciting, Marching, Singing: The Collective Political Voice of Victorian Poetry
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987311
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If there was a single article I would want every Victorianist to read, it would be Ruth McAdams’s 2024 piece “‘Three Cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal!’: Confronting Anti-Union Discourse, Then and Now.” McAdams reads Hard Times through her own struggle to unionize non-tenure-track faculty at Skidmore College. Most of the academics she encounters have only the vaguest sense of what unions actually do, and they routinely fall for misleading anti-labor talking points that turn out to have been circulating—startlingly unchanged— since 1854.McAdams makes the case that one of the major obstacles in the way of collective organizing is the structure of the academic career. “The quest for individual excellence and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/204/image/coversmallReciting, Marching, Singing: The Collective Political Voice of Victorian Poetry2026-04-02text/htmlen-USReciting, Marching, Singing: The Collective Political Voice of Victorian Poetry2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®912002026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Humanities Future; or, Don’t Quit Lit
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987312
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I started the 2023–24 academic year by applying for tenure and promotion at St. Norbert College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Wisconsin founded in 1898. At the time, I was one faculty member of eight teaching in the discipline of English and one of around 135 at the institution. A new president had just been hired: Dr. Laurie Joyner, who had been the subject of a faculty vote of no confidence at her previous institution, Saint Xavier University, after the administration cut ties with the faculty union.1 Over the first months of Dr. Joyner’s tenure at St. Norbert, an announcement of a $5 million budget deficit for the year became a $15 million projected deficit over three years. Based on this projection, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/204/image/coversmallHumanities Future; or, Don’t Quit Lit2026-04-02text/htmlen-USHumanities Future; or, Don’t Quit Lit2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®962712026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Literary Studies Inside Out: Notes Toward Critical University Press Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987313
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Like many university presses, the State University of New York Press, where I work as an acquisitions editor, is not located on a campus. As a unit of the State University of New York System Administration, we have some offices in downtown Albany, although, like many white-collar workers whose workplaces went remote at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, I work mostly from home. Removed from the physical spaces associated with colleges and universities—libraries, classrooms, dormitories, quads—I am outside academia. But it’s a constitutive outside.As a university press editor, I facilitate processes that are central both to the mission of the university to produce knowledge and to the production of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/204/image/coversmallLiterary Studies Inside Out: Notes Toward Critical University Press Studies2026-04-02text/htmlen-USLiterary Studies Inside Out: Notes Toward Critical University Press Studies2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®1225792026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Chartist Poetry and the Fate of Research: Writing and Activism, Then and Now
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987314
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This essay draws connections between what might seem like two very different bodies of writing: Chartist poetry and modern academic scholarship produced by those who lack support or incentives for research, especially non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty. In many respects, it is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Chartist poetry was written in the 1830s through 1850s under dire material circumstances to directly political ends, whereas NTT scholarship today is written under challenging though plainly improved conditions and for careerist or personal reasons. Nonetheless, the comparison illuminates questions about the relationship between pedagogical work, political work, and creative work that reverberate through higher
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/204/image/coversmallChartist Poetry and the Fate of Research: Writing and Activism, Then and Now2026-04-02text/htmlen-USChartist Poetry and the Fate of Research: Writing and Activism, Then and Now2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®993232026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Informatics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987315
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Early in her career, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to her mentor Hugh Stuart Boyd that “[t]he knowledge of bare facts has no more intellectual dignity, than has the knowledge of consecutive simple alphabetic sounds.”1 Barrett Browning’s suggestion is that there’s something fundamentally different between merely possessing information and achieving higher knowledge—between, as she writes in Aurora Leigh (1856),2 the “statistical despairs” (II: l. 313) inscribed “in figures on a page, / Plain, silent, clear” (II: ll. 314–15) and the poetic capacity to “keep up open roads / Betwixt the seen and unseen” (II: ll. 468–69). Information, with its connotation of hard fact and mechanized technology, seems incompatible
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/204/image/coversmallInformatics2026-04-02text/htmlen-USInformatics2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®243942026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02