#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts
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🚨 job alert! 🚨
2 #postdoctoralresearchers / #PostDocPosition s (65% TV-L 13) at Uni Potsdam - with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair
deadline: 30 September 2026
details: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/irtg-cultures-of-repair
#literarystudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #queerstudies
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Out now!
STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie JaëckLooking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception.
Available from bookshops worldwide (£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95) & digitally via Project MUSE
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies
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British #Euroscepticism in 8 #dystopian novels by British authors, published in the wake of the #Brexit referendum is the focus of Lisa Bischoff's 2023 monograph "British Novels and the European Union - DisEUtopia"
#EnglishLiterature #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #EuropeanUnion
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This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism
Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature -
5 new arrivals on the #MiddleAges for the middle of the week!
This book by Ian Cornelius attempts a reconstruction of #alliteration in #MedievalLiterature such as Caedmon's Hymn, Beowulf, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight or Piers Plowman -
In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?
#PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature
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Today is #InternationalChildrensBookDay - so book 1 of this 🧵by Sybille A. Jagusch is on depictions of #Japan in 200 years of American #ChildrensBooks - from #travelogues to picture books, adventure stories #folklore & more
#ICBD #AmericanLiterature #Asia #interculturalexchange #LiteraryStudies
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Another 100th birthday already: John Fowles, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus" & many other Postmodern novels, was #BOTD 100 years ago.
Find many of his works & secondary works of #LiteraryStudies on Fowles in our collection! -
We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
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New book alert 🔔🔔🔔
Gavin Hopps applies theories such as #AffectTheory #EcoTheology #NewMaterialism & #ReEnchantment in his post-secular re-reading of the literature of the #Romantics#Romanticism #RomanticLiterature #LiteraryStudies
Catalogue link: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1928707394
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This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other
#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies
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Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture
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Read essays on subliminal dream creations in 200 years of #Gothic works - from #Coleridge & #Walpole to #Piranesi #Goya & #Fuseli & #MaryWollstonecraft to #vampires #Marxism & videogames such as #TheWitcher & #Bloodbourne
Find the book here:
https://s.gwdg.de/B3pPBe#LiteraryStudies #GamesStudies #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature
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4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press -
Or read Myka Tucker-Abramson's "Cartographies of Empire" for an in-depth analysis of the #roadnovel & its place in political economy, problematising the genre's #Americanness by discussing examples from 20+ countries
#AmericanLiterature #AmericanStudies #genrestudies #LiteraryStudies #Roadtrip
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In the GAPS #conference panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism", Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema / #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis
#PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies
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What's that flapping noise? Might it be ... #vampires in our library?!
On 04/04/25 for #NachtDerBibliotheken blood-thirsty creatures of the night will haunt SUB Göttingen in Dorothea Schuller's #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies talk on #libraries in #VampireFiction: #Dracula #Nosferatu #BtVS & more
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"Writing during the Disasters" is a new book by Marius Henderson on suffering in contemporary #AmericanPoetry applying #AffectTheory, #QueerTheory, Black Feminism & more to the works of 7 poets and 1 artist collective
#Poetry #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature
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In #BritCult2024 panel 5, Irene Valenti & Deborah de Muijnk explored affects related to #PercyByssheShelley's political poetry & #OscarWilde's #DorianGray respectively
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Edinburgh University Press has included 25 literary studies journals in its #OpenAccess campaign running this January.
This includes free access to #CrimeFictionStudies, #GothicStudies, #JournalOfInklingsStudies, #Romanticism, #Victoriographies, and many others!
Browse them all here: https://www.euppublishing.com/literarystudies
#Journals #CrimeFiction #Gothic #Inklings #Romantics #Victorian #VictorianStudies #FreeAccess #LiteraryStudies