Redux

How much time has passed since the publication of VLC’ s Keywords issue five years ago? This is not a trick question. Students nineteenth-century British literature and culture are primed to see as long (“with length summers”), events at both national global scales have encouraged widespread sense that 2018 located less in recent past than on far side divide—in Before Times. On other hand, view by scholarly focus period ended over century ago may little or no meaningful having between 2023. Moreover, more quotidian level, very pace scholarship—the amount it typically takes conceive, research, write, publish work, even for those without Casaubonian bone their bodies—can make seem like all (“five summers flew by,” Wordsworth might put had he been an academic calendar).