{"title":"The Southern Indian Ocean and the Oceanic South","authors":"Charne Lavery","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The southern Indian Ocean constitutes a distinct oceanographic region that offers useful links, connections, and perspectives as an area of inquiry, in the domain of colonial and postcolonial literature but also more widely. The region is both particularly oceanic and particularly southern, making it a key part of the ‘oceanic South’, a formulation which overlays the postcolonial poverty of the Global South with its oceanicity. As an area of inquiry it complicates Indian Ocean studies by drawing its purview into colder, wilder, more oceanic regions; centralizes questions of the global - and oceanic - South; and encourages a focus on the ocean itself. The article describes the material characteristics of the southern Indian Ocean, places it within the oceanic South, and as an example reads a work of historical fiction - Dan Sleigh’s Islands (2005) - within this particular oceanic, political, and literary geography.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130113379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leaving Victorian Studies Behind: The Case of Vassar College","authors":"Lydia D. Murdoch, Susan Zlotnick","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.9","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Much of the recent reflection on nineteenth-century global studies has focused on research, graduate program(me)s, or upper-level courses. This essay recounts the transformation of the Program in Victorian Studies at Vassar College, one of the few institutions in North America offering an undergraduate degree in Victorian Studies, into a global nineteenth-century studies program. The new multidisciplinary program prioritizes teaching at the 100-level in order to prepare students to take a global perspective into advanced courses. Its introductory team-taught course, ‘Revolution, Evolution, and the Global Nineteenth Century’, is the place where the Vassar faculty work out both the practical and theoretical challenges of teaching ‘the global’, such as how to incorporate non-Anglophone materials as well as science and technology into a global curriculum. The course - and the program more broadly - constitute a serious effort to decolonize the study of the nineteenth century at the undergraduate level.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117178498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maritime History, Microhistory, and the Global Nineteenth Century: The Edwin Fox","authors":"Boyd Cothran, A. Shubert","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article explains how the melding of microhistory and maritime history through the career of the Edwin Fox, an unexceptional British sailing ship that was active between 1853 and 1905, provides an innovative approach to understanding some of the myriad complexities that characterized the globalization of the period 1850 to 1914, and thus the complex and contradictory inner workings of staggering and unprecedented change on a global scale. Such an approach makes it possible to write a history of globalization on a human scale, highlighting local conditions and human agency at work, as well as decentring the Atlantic world. The article uses the story of the pianos that the ship carried from Great Britain to New Zealand in 1881 as an example of the intimate, unexpected, and otherwise invisible interconnections of globalization that this approach can reveal.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121704968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century","authors":"A. Camoglu","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e., hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary and vocabulary back in the spatiotemporally dispersed, multilingual landscape where they emerged and evolved. As it seeks to move beyond the Euro-U.S.-centric frameworks employed in transnational accounts of romantic aesthetics, this article foregrounds linguistic difference and plurality as a conduit for rethinking globality in literary critical approaches to the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131101471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living ‘La High Life’: Images, Objects, and Words in Motion in Spain and Beyond","authors":"Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.13","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000From around 1880 to 1920, the term ‘high life’ figured prominently in the press, advertising, literature, and illustrated print media in European and American urban centres and was linked to luxury consumer products and a wealthy lifestyle. The meanings of the expression were flexible and became intertwined across geographic locations. Printed media acted as a non-physical contact zone where a multitude of cultural influences, economic interests, and visual languages intersected. Taking Spanish popular print culture as a point of departure, this article charts how the term emerged in different geographic locations and became associated with both local and international identities. The circulation of the high life brand name reveals how cultural producers, advertisers, and local readers thought about transnational webs of consumerism at the turn of the twentieth century. The expression was decentred from its English origin, even in Anglophone settings, and redefined across local cultures without losing its association with perceived international practices and trends.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125257946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Diplomatic History and the Study of the Global Nineteenth Century","authors":"S. Amirell","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The cultural turn in diplomatic history and the rise of the field of new diplomatic history since the end of the twentieth century has not, to date, had a great impact on the study of the global nineteenth century. This article argues that bringing the methods and perspectives of new diplomatic history to bear on the study of the global nineteenth century is fruitful in at least five respects. First, it encourages multivocality by including informal diplomatic actors in the study of cross-cultural diplomacy and colonial encounters; second, it calls upon the historian to pay equal attention to the motives, perspectives, and worldviews of Europeans and non-Europeans; third, it pays attention to the conditions and circumstances, including violence, coercion, translation, place, ceremony, and gifts, of cross-cultural diplomacy and imperial expansion; fourth, it highlights the long-term character of imperial and diplomatic relations; and fifth, it broadens the range of available sources to include a wide range of textual and non-textual sources. In all of these respects, new diplomatic history can help historians of the global nineteenth century to overcome the traps of Eurocentrism and teleological and macrohistorical biases.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114880794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transmediality: A Model in Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","authors":"M. Pietrzak-Franger","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000I argue that the nineteenth century is particularly pertinent to our understanding of transmediality and, moreover, that transmediality offers a valuable framework to rethink and study the period itself. In what follows, then, I sketch some of the advantages of what I call nineteenth-century transmedia studies, and of global transmedia studies in particular. I begin by outlining how a focus on transmediality transforms our understanding of the era. Against this backdrop, I show the value of transmedia practices for global nineteenth-century studies, and, last but not least, spotlight some of the implications this may have for the shape of future nineteenth-century scholarship and funding.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114453374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victorian Studies, Literature, and the Global Nineteenth Century","authors":"Jessica R. Valdez","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2022.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay advocates critical examination of the function of the ‘global’ in global nineteenth-century studies. Using the Victorian novel as a case study, this essay conceives global nineteenth-century studies as a site for disciplinary boundary crossing, in which scholars across fields can dialogue to expand their historical, geographical, and methodological scope, while still respecting field-specific expertise and localized historical knowledge.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126435185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}