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Date: 2007-
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
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y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies Water vol. 27 no. 1 2023 27348078 2023 periodical issue 'Water persists in the human imagination as a place of paradox: fear, foreboding, possibility and imagination. As an element so entirely vital for life, it provides a space for literal and metaphorical exploration, while oceanic depths act as a reminder of the unknowability of its vastness. As Una Chaudhuri aptly suggests, “A space beyond the normal realm of the human senses, the ocean has also long been a space beyond human thought, almost beyond human imagining” (149). Yet in this elemental power beyond human science, technology and civilisation, water becomes a near all-powerful force that responds and reacts to ill treatment, provoked by decay and corruption to obliterate human hands through tidal waves, floods and deluges. Recent anthropocenic oceanic studies have fixated on the devolution of the natural world through the lens of the ocean, an environment in which “diverse, beautiful ecological systems still dominated by coral reefs and fish will be replaced by ‘slime-rock’ systems dominated by algal and microbial mats and jellyfish” (Zalasiewicz 191). Similarly, Stacy Alaimo has asserted that the “Anthropocene seas will be paradoxical, anachronistic zones of terribly compressed temporality” in which “the future will move backwards, into a time when the oceans were devoid of whales, dolphins, fish, coral reefs, and a multitude of other species, but jellyfish (and algae) proliferated” (Alaimo 158). From another perspective, there are other scientists who continue to consider the ocean in mechanistic, industrial terms, maintaining an imperialist approach: “The ocean itself is our single greatest tool when properly harnessed and leveraged. That tool sits ready, and we have a good idea how to use it” (Palumbi 178).' (Water : An introduction: Helen Blythe, Alexandra Lewis, Lesa Scholl and Joanne Wilkes)
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies vol. 26 no. 1 2022 26286908 2022 periodical issue 'Welcome to a new general issue of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. The publishing of our issues has been more erratic than we would have liked - as is not without precedent during the pandemic. But look out for an announcement of a new special issue inviting contributions in a variety of formats.' (Introduction)
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies Small Worlds vol. 25 no. 1 2021 23749838 2021 periodical issue 'Welcome to the new issue of Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies! This is the special issue on ‘Small Worlds’: it has emerged from the AVSA conference proposed for 2020 in Melbourne which had to be cancelled because of the pandemic.' (Joanne Wilks, from Introduction)
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies vol. 24 no. 1 2020 21939631 2020 periodical issue

'Welcome to this new issue of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, my first one as Editor. We also have on board a new Reviews Editor, Alison Bedford.

'We are very grateful for the work of our predecessors, Meg Tasker (Editor), and Jocelyn Hargrave (Reviews Editor). Meg is still on deck, since later this year, we will bring out the second Special Issue on Pre-Raphaelitism in Australia, which she is co-editing with Alison Inglis. Thanks also Carolyn Lake for her ongoing technical / formatting work.' (Introduction)
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies vol. 22 no. 1 2018 15075435 2018 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies vol. 21 no. 1 2016 10691815 2016 periodical issue

'Australasian Victorian Studies Association conference Auckland 2015; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst; neo-Victorian feminism; neo-Victorian fiction; “The Victorians and Memory”; memory and forgetting.' (Introduction)
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies vol. 20 no. 1 2015 8778708 2015 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies vol. 18 no. 1 2013 6518105 2013 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies vol. 12 no. 1 2007 Z1481667 2007 periodical issue
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