Book Review Forum

Abstract

Book Review Forum Andrea Broomfield (bio) and Solveig C. Robinson (bio), Forum Editors At the 2009 RSVP Annual Conference in Minneapolis, amid general discussion about book reviews in Victorian Periodicals Review, the idea was floated to create a forum in which contemporary or classic works of periodicals scholarship could be discussed by scholars from different disciplinary or theoretical perspectives. This inaugural VPRBook Review Forum focuses on Dallas Liddle's The Dynamics of Genre(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009). Historian Leslie Howsam and literary critic Linda K. Hughes offer their insights into what Liddle's book offers scholars in their disciplines. We hope their comments—and Liddle's responses—will provide food for thought. Andrea Broomfield, Forum Editors Johnson County Community College Solveig C. Robinson, Forum Editors Pacific Lutheran University Andrea Broomfield Andrea Broomfield is Professor of English at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS. She specializes in culinary history and is author of Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History(2007). She is currently writing a history of dining aboard the steamship, 1840-1914. Her most recent work includes an article in Gastronomica, "The Night the Good Ship Went Down: Three Meals aboard the Titanic" (2009) and "Food and Cooking in Scotland" for Food Cultures of the World(2011). She is co-editor with Sally Mitchell of Prose By Victorian Women: An Anthology(1996) and has written several article and book chapters on Victorian-era journalism. Solveig C. Robinson Solveig Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Publishing & Printing Arts Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She is the author of a number of articles on Victorian publishing history and the editor of A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers(2003). Copyright © 2011 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals