Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (GNCS) is a forum for scholars from a wide array of disciplines who share an interest in the world’s connectedness between 1750 and 1914.

It publishes pioneering essays of transnational, comparative, transimperial, transpacific, and transatlantic significance while also serving as a venue to debate these terms and their corresponding methodologies and epistemologies.

Investigating material culture forms, visual and literary texts, ideas, and sentient beings that transcend national boundaries, essays in GNCS are asked to engage critically with mobility and migration, imperialism and colonialism, and production and distribution, as well as travel, technologies, and varieties of exchange.

The journal welcomes submissions that explore developments within and among imperial entities, regions, and nations.

Members of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies receive a two-year subscription to the journal.

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Call for Papers
1) Special Issue CFP: The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century
Manuscript submissions may be sent to [email protected] by 15 September 2024. The expected date of publication is fall/winter 2025.

2) Special Issue CFP: Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914
Manuscript submissions may be sent to [email protected] by 1 December 2024. The expected date of publication is spring/summer 2026.

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In addition to publishing research articles, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies has several standing sections. Each section has its own editor who is primarily responsible for curating its intellectual content. The editors now invite submissions to each section.

Creative Histories
Section editor: Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University 
Email: Trevor R. Getz

In the nineteenth century, as today, people communicated ideas through a vast range of media. This was the era of cartoonists like Emmanuel Poiré, picture journals like Punch and Eshimbun Nihonchi, the invention of the phonograph, and a flowering of puppet and lantern theater around the world. Many of these media conveyed messages and stories from the past, from Gustave Doré’s The Picturesque, Dramatic, and Caricatural History of Holy Russia, arguably the world’s first graphic history, to wayang histories of Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib and other Muslim figures, to ground-breaking data visualizations by W. E. B. DuBois, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Joseph Minard. Similarly, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies will periodically feature the unusual and alternate ways in which contemporary scholars depicted and interpreted the nineteenth century: descriptive maps, comics, data and architectural visualizations, experimental histories, and speculative biographies that mirror the richness of the nineteenth-century world. Reflective essays that engage with issues in the creative rendering of history are also welcome.

Global Documents 
Section editor: Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau
Email: Joshua Ehrlich

Submissions for this section should present and analyze unpublished textual or visual documents that fit the aims and scope of the journal. If not in English, they should be translated, but original versions may be included when appropriate. Other formats such as roundtable discussions of one or more documents will be considered. For all proposals, the word count should be at least 2,000 words (including footnotes) and should not exceed the length of a standard journal article.

Transcultural Objects
Section editor: Priya Maholay-Jaradi, National University of Singapore
Email: Priya Maholay-Jaradi

Nineteenth-century colonial, industrial, and modernizing technologies accelerated the global circulation of objects. Block-printed textiles from Gujarat and Coromandel catered to the Indonesian and Thai markets. Cartier, Baccarat, and other Euro-American luxury houses engaged Asian royalty in design discussions to craft new editions of jewelry, toiletries, and tableware. Sightings of rare species such as the Rafflesia arnoldii in Sumatra led to worldwide dissemination of actual or pictorial samples for scientific study. Teeming with traders, designers, informants, and scholars, these thoroughfares of the market, catalogue, journal, and exhibition reinvigorated objects with new visual, material, and contextual ideas. As a result, whether natural, hand-crafted, or machine-produced, objects travelled far beyond their place of origin to experience intermixing and transformation. Submissions to this section should address this latter process of transculturation and its cross-border dynamics; we encourage scholars at the same time to augment the constituency of transcultural objects by looking beyond established taxonomies and genres.

History from Beyond
Section editor: Kyle Jackson, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Email: Kyle Jackson

Historians who study the nineteenth-century world are heir to a set of conceptual tools forged by intellectuals in a small part of that world. While euromethodologies have proven illuminating, much historical evidence has been cast aside without good reason, while the lived experience, truths, and knowledges of diverse peoples have been downgraded as “belief.” What alternative ways of doing history have been relegated to the shadows by our discipline’s post-Enlightenment assumptions? Global Nineteenth-Century Studies will periodically feature “History from Beyond”—interventions that seek to open up new questions or approaches beyond disciplinary norms, beyond humans, and beyond euromethodologies. We especially welcome submissions that seek to challenge the core assumptions of Western modernity, close the gap between Western constructions of the past and wider-world realities, decolonize and Indigenize historical storytelling, or more seamlessly integrate non-Western epistemologies, the unknown, or the mysterious into historical narrative.

Reinterpetations
Section editor: Tom Ue, Cape Breton University
Email: Tom Ue

This section explores reinterpretations of the Victorian period, whether they manifest in the forms of critical editions, neo-Victorian fiction, film, theatre, music, or visual arts. The Victorians were well aware of the complexities inherent in reading and representing their own times. George Gissing, for instance, wrote his seminal study of Charles Dickens (1898) in Siena, Italy, in which he stresses how removed Dickens’ age is from his: “The time which shaped him and sent him forth is so far behind us, as to have become a matter of historical study for the present generation; the time which knew him as one of its foremost figures, and owed so much to the influences of his wondrous personality, is already made remote by a social revolution of which he watched the mere beginning.” In sum, the geographical, historical, cultural, social, and literary distance between the two writers empowers Gissing with a kind of bifocal perspective: “to regard Dickens from the standpoint of posterity; to consider his career, to review his work, and to estimate his total activity in relation to an age which, intelligibly speaking, is no longer our own.” Gissing’s concerns anticipate many of ours as we variously reinterpret the nineteenth century. For this section on “Reinterpretations,” articles that offer individual case studies that examine the recovery of texts or that further theoretical work on adaptation, Steampunk, or the Victorian afterlife are equally at home.

Periodicals
Section editor: Helena Goodwyn, Northumbria University
Email: Helena Goodwyn

In rethinking the nineteenth century in global terms, a refocused attention must be paid to the periodical press which has often been figured as a vehicle for increasing democratic freedoms, in its portrayal as the “fourth estate.” This section encourages the submission of articles, roundtables, research reflections, pedagogical interventions and other critical-creative writings that bring new and cross-cultural understandings to existing ideas of such terms as the “global,” “international,” “provincial,” “local,” “transnational,” “colonial,” and “cosmopolitan” in relation to nineteenth-century periodicals. These innovative perspectives will help us to critically re-evaluate the currency of many well-used concepts and to stimulate new directions in periodicals research, as well as in the field of nineteenth-century studies.

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Abstracting and Indexing
GNCS is abstracted and indexed in MLA International Bibliography and Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals.

Editor
Kevin A. Morrison, Henan University

Associate Editors
Parama Roy, University of California, Davis
Geoffrey A. C. Ginn, University of Queensland
Jennifer McDonell, University of New England
Maggie Cao, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Section Editors
Creative Histories: Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University
Global Documents: Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau
Transcultural Objects: Priya Maholay-Jaradi, National University of Singapore
History from Beyond: Kyle Jackson, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Reinterpretations: Tom Ue, Cape Breton University
Periodicals: Helena Goodwyn, Northumbria University

Book review editors
Art History: Niharika Dinkar, Boise State University
History: Osama Siddiqui, Providence College
Literature: Jennifer Hargrave, Baylor University

Editorial Assistant
Gautam Joseph, National University of Singapore

Editorial Board
Laura Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University
Robert Aguirre, University of Windsor
Sascha Auerbach, University of Nottingham
Constance Bantman, University of Surrey
Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds
Fabrice Bensimon, Sorbonne Université
Chris Bongie, Queen’s University
Jennifer DeVere Brody, Stanford University
Anja Bunzel, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois
Ayşe Çelikkol, Bilkent University
Ross Forman, University of Warwick
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amitav Ghosh, Novelist and essayist
Philip Howell, Cambridge University
Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Brown University
Sabrina Joseph, American University in Dubai
Julia Kuehn, University of Groningen
Selina Lai-Henderson, Duke Kunshan University
Charne Lavery, University of Pretoria
Kiera Lindsey, History Trust of South Australia / University of New England
Gary Chi-hung Luk, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, University of Warwick
Ian Phimister, University of the Free State
John Plunkett, University of Exeter
Jason Rudy, University of Maryland
Berny Sèbe, University of Birmingham
Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University
Miles Taylor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Marion Thain, King’s College London
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos, University of São Paulo
David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Watt, University of Adelaide
Tan Tai Yong, Singapore University of Social Sciences
Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester

Essays should be written for a broad, multidisciplinary readership.

Submissions should be typed and double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins on all sides.

Supporting files, including illustrations, figures, and tables, must be submitted with the written text.

References and in-text citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style’s author-date system.

Unless written in response to a specific call with separate requirements (for example, a cluster of short position papers on a given topic, a review forum, and so on), essays should generally be in the range of 9,000 words (including notes and bibliography). Submissions that greatly exceed or fall considerably short of this expectation will be returned to the authors.

Please submit your work to the editorial office at [email protected].

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Call for Papers
1) Special Issue CFP: The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century
Manuscript submissions may be sent to [email protected] by 15 September 2024. The expected date of publication is fall/winter 2025.

2) Special Issue CFP: Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914
Manuscript submissions may be sent to [email protected] by 1 December 2024. The expected date of publication is spring/summer 2026.

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