Our fellow DACH Victorianists Sarah Wegener and Wolfgang Funk would like to invite you to join the "Victorian Reproductions" workshop that they will host in Mainz on 24 and 25 March 2023. Attendance is free of charge. For an extensive programme and details on registration (which is open until 3 March, please click here.
The workshop aims to uncover some of the complex textual and cultural relations and representations of reproduction in the Victorian era. Against the background of the surge of medico-scientific tracts on human anatomy and sexuality (Gray’s Anatomy; Geddes and Thomson’s Evolution of Sex; William Acton’s Function and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs; William Buchan’s Advice to Mothers) and in the wake of Darwin’s evolutionary theories in The Origin of the Species, reproduction saw an increase in currency and relevance in Victorian cultural life. In the field of Victorian literature, reproduction holds a particular fascination, since, as John Holmes notes, literature, and poetry especially, can serve as “a documentary source for understanding the significance of evolution within Victorian culture” (60). In this context, the workshop will investigate how productions and reproductions in and of texts, of metre and form merge with cultural reflections about procreation, configurations of bodies and gender, as well as the development of the human species in general.
For the CfP [closed], please click here.
DACH Victorianists is a network that brings together scholars from the “D-A-CH” region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) whose research and teaching focus on Victorian literature and culture. It offers a forum for academics of all career stages to present and discuss research and methodologies in Victorian studies. DACH Victorianists hosts bi-annual workshops, which provide insights insight into PhD, postdoc, and third-party funded projects as well as current publishing activities.
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