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 Jochem has agreed to host the session. If you would like to join the discussion, please register here. Reading material and the Zoom link will be sent to participants a couple of weeks in advance. We're looking forward to seeing you soon!
For questions, reading suggestions and ideas concerning the Reading Group, please contact Stefanie John.
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