Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Victorian Short Fiction Project, colonial fiction, girls' adventure fiction
College
Humanities
Department
English
Abstract
The original purpose of my project was two-fold: 1) to expand the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a peer-reviewed database compiled from Victorian periodical fiction housed in Brigham Young University’s special collections library; and 2) to utilize this database in order to perform a literary study of nineteenth-century colonial fiction. In accordance with growing scholarly interest in digital tools as a means of conducting literary scholarship, I wanted to promote BYU’s own digital and print resources in order to discover important trends in Victorian literature. With the help of Dr. Leslee Thorne-Murphy, who has worked tirelessly over the past decade to curate and professionalize the VSFP, I developed and expanded the database and, furthermore, utilized its resources in order to compose an argument concerning the role of girls’ adventure fiction in the first volume (1887-1888) of a girls’ periodical entitled Atalanta.
Recommended Citation
Robertson, Isaac and Thorne-Murphy, Leslee
(2019)
"Developing and Utilizing the VSFP Database: Atalanta and Girls’ Adventure Fiction,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2019:
Iss.
2019, Article 83.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2019/iss2019/83