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DESCRIPTION:Virtual event description:  \n\n \n\nThis year\, ROAAr has show
 cased ways in which newspapers entered\, entertained\, even influenced eve
 ryday life. The series concludes with a talk by Jessica Valdez\, on how ne
 wspapers shaped the novel. “Victorian Sensation Novels and the News” focus
 es on a particular phenomenon: fiction’s close scrutiny of real-life news 
 stories drawn from the news. Commonly known as 'the newspaper novel\,' sen
 sation novels of the 1860s took their plots from police news\, shipping ne
 ws\, and even the Agony Column\, a section of personal advertisements appe
 aring at the front of Victorian newspapers.\n\nAt a moment when novels and
  newspapers were both claiming to narrate a particular version of their pr
 esent moment\, characters in sensation novels wondered whether newspapers 
 provided information and entertainment\, or whether they also carried with
 in them augurs of destiny.\n\nJoin special guest scholar Jessica Valdez to
  explore the relationship between Victorian sensation fiction and the news
 .\n\n \n\n\n	Watch on YouTube\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nJessica R. Valdez
  is the Visiting Belcher Fellow in Victorian Studies at St. Hugh’s College
  Oxford. She is currently an associate professor in English at the Univers
 ity of Hong Kong\, but she will leave HKU to become a lecturer at the Univ
 ersity of East Anglia in September 2022. Her first book\, Plotting the New
 s in the Victorian Novel (EUP 2020)\, will be available in paperback in Ju
 ne 2022. It analyzes competing understandings of national identity in nine
 teenth-century novels and the newspaper press. Her new book project is ten
 tatively called Despots and Democrats: China and America in Nineteenth-Cen
 tury British Literature. She has published articles in journals including 
 Studies in the Novel and Victorian Periodicals Review\, among others.\n\n
 \nAbout the Series\n\nYou can watch past events on our YouTube Channel.\n
 \nSee a full list of past events on our website.\n
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LOCATION:Rare Books and Special Collections\, McLennan Library Building 4th
  floor\, McLennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 r
 ue McTavish
SUMMARY:Victorian Sensation Novels and the News 
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