Coming soon to a fine bookshop near you: The Moonstone, in the pretty 'collectible classics' series from Flame Tree Publishing, introduction by me.
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Coming soon to a fine bookshop near you: The Moonstone, in the pretty 'collectible classics' series from Flame Tree Publishing, introduction by me.
Curious to see how these groups get on. Think some students are struggling a bit with both authors, but that just means I'll have to convince them otherwise.
Running on fumes a bit at this point of my semester, but also grateful I get to teach Wilde AND Dickens back-to-back on the same afternoon.
Enjoyed today's #RSVPDigiEvent? Can't wait for more #19thC periodicals' chat? Our March event is just around the corner next Friday, March 6! @triproftri.bsky.social will talk to us about the "Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the Forget Me Not for 1825 + 1833." Register now!
Very happy to see this published. My co-conspirator in all things conference-related, @cbkenkar.bsky.social, and I are so proud of the students who wrote this review and grateful to everyone who made the event such a special one.
CFP: VPR will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2027. We’re taking this historic occasion to capture the state of our field in a “KEYWORDS” special issue guest edited by Fionnuala Dillane, @jimmussell.bsky.social & @mdamkjaer.bsky.social. Proposals due March 30. Details: rs4vp.org/vpr-cfp-spec...
This is why in higher education you should not let your curriculum be driven by 'demand.' You need give students the precious opportunity to discover the things they don't already know they will be excited about.
BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!
Deadline Day! If you have a good idea, please share it with me! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
It’s publication week for Tales of Health, a book that brings a medical humanities framework to the Romantic genre of the National Tale and its questions of health and citizenship.
It's an Austen rewriting. Many of the students dislike it for not being enough like Austen, and they're right. But that maybe misses part of the point, even if it's nice they've come to appreciate a great author!
Personally, I remain open to a darker interpretation, and above all to Fiona Shaw as Lady Catherine.
Wasn't sure about the casting mainly! 2005 seems to be the firm favourite with the students I'm currently teaching.
Also, does it matter that the new Netflix adaptation has gone for Pride and Prejudice rather than Pride & Prejudice (a la 2005)? Discuss.
Just catching up with the online discussion board for my adaptations module, and a student is responding critically to the new Netflix Pride and Prejudice teaser trailer! A rare example of the worlds of my middle-aged, academic Bluesky feed & the lives of my Gen Z students colliding 🤣.
Enjoying the experience of teaching a text most of the students think isn't very good again, not only for the engaged discussions, but also for the eventual realisation for some that it is worth reading & analysing literature that isn't conventionally 'great' sometimes.
Regular readers of my skeets might remember that I recently-ish went to London to find out whether Jane Austen was gay and lo! the conversation piece I wrote the day afterwards has finally been published
Join the VPFA for a workshop on publishing Victorian Popular Fiction!
✅ Turning your thesis into a monograph.
✅ Writing a winning book proposal.
✅ Insights from the VPFJ editorial committee.
✅ Handling peer review & rejection
📅 26th February at 6pm
🔗 See your emails for the registration link!
As we are still in the thrall of winter, JOIN ME at the Viktor Wynd museum (online) with The Last Tuesday Society THIS Friday (27th Feb) at 8pm (GMT) where I will be chatting about child ghosts.
A ticket gets you a (time limted) recording if you can't make it on the evening!
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📢 We are delighted to announce that our newest special issue "Narratives of Solidarity vs. Narratives of Exclusion in Twenty-first-century Fiction and Performance" has officially been published! 📚 This issue comprises promising articles on #solidarity, community and #affect. More details👇:
Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
To mark the release of Emerald Fennell’s #WutheringHeights, @drclaireocall.bsky.social, #BrontëStudies Editor, has curated a selection of archival essays exploring the novel’s incredible afterlife. Free to access & perfect pre-reading🍿 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ybs... @tandfresearch.bsky.social
This time next month this book will be out in the world. If your institution subscribes to Oxford Academic, you can already access the digital version! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#JaneAusten #Adaptation #19thC
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Reminder: our Adaptation SIG event is this Wednesday 4pm (UK time) on Adaptation and Franchises! DM if you've not got the zoom link.
It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
I’m delighted to have been invited to speak at Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series! Join next Weds 25th Feb 5.15pm GMT (in person or online) for a free talk on ‘Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle’ on the theme of Victorian Bodies: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... 🦠 📕
(And I say that as someone who's quite into this sort of thing.)
This piece actually offers an intriguing & slightly different perspective on the new adaptation, but is anyone else getting a bit tired of the endless discourse on Fennell's "Wuthering Heights"?
Give your lady what she *really* wants this Valentine’s Day — to read, like, and repost her WUTHERING HEIGHTS review for @newrepublic 💕
newrepublic.com/article/2063...
My pleasant pig-faced gentleman, You may persuade me, if you can, To marry you and thus intrude Among the swinish multitude. You are a pig in mind - nay, more - Your manners make you quite a bore So look among your fellow swine For a more fitting Valentine.
Lovey-dovey #Valentines kitsch everywhere leaving you cold? How about Victorian 'Vinegar Valentines' instead? In the 19th century, it was popular to send one of these to someone you didn't like. These are from the collection at the wonderful Museum of East Dorset - well worth a visit!