Save the date! The DACH Victorianists Reading Group will resume its meetings in the winter term. Our next session will be on Friday, 23 October 2026, from 2-3 pm , as usual, on Zoom. We will discuss a section from Kathy Alexis Psomiades's Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity (OUP, 2023). Here's a teaser from the publisher's website: "Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter. But what happens to the novel when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional material? Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity shows how the foundational ideas of the new discipline of anthropology gave late-Victorian novelists and social scientists ways of rethinking heterosexual romance by referring to a new kind of history, one in which marriage systems, sexual behavior, and reproductive practices were temporalized and given historical agency." We're excited that Sophia Jo...
The Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester will host an online panel on "Empathy and the Victorian Novel" on 22 October 2026, 5:00–6:45 pm (UK time) , featuring Elaine Auyoung, Suzanne Keen, and Rachel Ablow. The event is free to attend. Registration is available via Eventbrite. For more information, click here .