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I've made a starter pack inspired my this year's conference theme! Do let me know if your work falls in one of these areas and you'd like to be added (or removed!)

#histsex #sensationfiction #scandalous #SexScandalSensation #starterpack go.bsky.app/8LreXh7
November 12, 2024 at 8:37 PM
nextgreatread.bsky.social
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”

#BookSky #Books #VictorianGothic #SensationFiction #Deception
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.” — from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
September 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
joparsons.bsky.social
#CFP #Sex #Scandal and #Sensation Interdisciplinary conf
@FalmouthUni
#SensationFiction #Bestsellers #Bonkbusters #Blockbusters #CrimeFiction #Romance #Horror #Gothic All the good stuff!! darkeconomies.co.uk/sex-scandal-...
November 17, 2023 at 8:40 AM
joparsons.bsky.social
#CFP #Sex #Scandal and #Sensation Interdisciplinary conf
@FalmouthUni
#SensationFiction #Bestsellers #Bonkbusters #Blockbusters #CrimeFiction #Romance #Horror #Gothic All the good stuff!! darkeconomies.co.uk/sex-scandal-...
December 30, 2023 at 11:31 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#CallforPapers #CfP on #VictorianLiterature #SensationFiction & the #HealthHumanities
vpfa.bsky.social Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · Oct 2
🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
joparsons.bsky.social
#CFP #Sex #Scandal and #Sensation Interdisciplinary conf at #Falmouth University deadline 14th Feb. This is our annual Dark Economies conf & it's going to be fab! #SensationFiction #Bestsellers #Bonkbuster #Blockbusters #Crime #Romance #Horror #Gothic
darkeconomies.co.uk/sex-scandal-...
November 16, 2023 at 11:53 AM
drmarinacano.bsky.social
Chapter 2, Sensation Fiction Onstage and the New Woman💟 👇

E-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c...

From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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April 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM