Theory of Victorian Studies
Anachronism and Self-Reflexivity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10866484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Rowlinson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-252 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/vic.2005.47.2.241 |
| OpenAlex | W2001474956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
tute membership in NAVSA around the material practice of serial publication. The journal's quarterly arrival, its formal divisions, and its weight and bulk as a series of individual numbers extending along a bookshelf-each of these facts forms part of the life of NAVSA members. Until very recently, the same could be said about many associations of academic humanists; the founding of NAVSA, however, takes place in the context of far-reaching changes in the forms of scholarly publishing and communication. The role of the print journal in the association could, for instance, have been performed by a listserv, a decision that would have had profound effects on the communications between its members. Even given the decision to link NAVSA with a scholarly journal, the journal's distribution to the entire membership in print seems increasingly anomalous. More and more readers of scholarly journals access them online, either through individual subscriptions or more commonly through site licenses. Besides its implications for the economics of journal publication, this development is transforming the temporal organization of scholarly exchange, along with the forms of intertextuality and citation by which scholarly texts are linked to one another. The association of NAVSA with a print journal establishes specific-and arguably anachronistic-practices of reading and writing as the material basis of its members' collective identity. When Victorian Studies was founded in 1957 the quarterly journal was entering a three-decade-long golden age as an academic
Aesthetics · Anachronism · Art · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Thomas Hardy Literature Studies
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |