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  1. Out now!

    STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
    Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie Jaëck

    Looking 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

    @litstudies

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies

  2. Out now!

    STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
    Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie Jaëck

    Looking 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

    @litstudies

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies

  3. 🔴 Online il nuovo numero di Enthymema, rivista di critica, teoria letteraria e filosofia della letteratura.

    In questo numero, una sezione sulla diffusione della cultura #underground sovietica in Italia, dalla letteratura alla musica alle arti figurative

    @cultura

    ⬇️ In #openaccess qui: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/ent

    #ussr #samizdat #literarystudies #academia

  4. 🔴 Online il nuovo numero di Enthymema, rivista di critica, teoria letteraria e filosofia della letteratura.

    In questo numero, una sezione sulla diffusione della cultura #underground sovietica in Italia, dalla letteratura alla musica alle arti figurative

    @cultura

    ⬇️ In #openaccess qui: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/ent

    #ussr #samizdat #literarystudies #academia

  5. "The Disabled Detective" by Susannah B. Mintz analyses representations of disability & chronic illness in #CrimeFiction from #SherlockHolmes & #AgathaChristie 's works to contemporary literature & TV shows such as Jeffery Deaver's books or #Monk

    #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #DisabilityStudies

  6. "The Disabled Detective" by Susannah B. Mintz analyses representations of disability & chronic illness in #CrimeFiction from #SherlockHolmes & #AgathaChristie 's works to contemporary literature & TV shows such as Jeffery Deaver's books or #Monk

    #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #DisabilityStudies

  7. Did you know that July is #DisabilityPrideMonth ?
    Check out these 2 new books in our collection combining #DisabilityStudies & #LiteraryStudies
    Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond edited this collection of 19 own-voices essays on writing with #neurodivergence & #chronicillness & #disabilities

  8. Did you know that July is #DisabilityPrideMonth ?
    Check out these 2 new books in our collection combining #DisabilityStudies & #LiteraryStudies
    Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond edited this collection of 19 own-voices essays on writing with #neurodivergence & #chronicillness & #disabilities

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 42 - obviously the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", as readers of #speculativefiction are well aware - and also the number of the new #Inklings Yearbook! Read our blogpost & download the Yearbook from our repository, free & #openaccess

    head over to: libaac.de/home/full-view-post/

    #LiteraryStudies #Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies

  12. 42 - obviously the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", as readers of #speculativefiction are well aware - and also the number of the new #Inklings Yearbook! Read our blogpost & download the Yearbook from our repository, free & #openaccess

    head over to: libaac.de/home/full-view-post/

    #LiteraryStudies #Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies

  13. We are at the #Inklings #conference at TU Braunschweig on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic"! Yesterday, organisers Aylin Dilek Walder & Carsten Kullmann as well as Inklings Society president Armin Wallau welcomed us warmly to nicely air-conditioned rooms

    #FantasyLiterature #LiteraryStudies

  14. Online il nuovo numero della rivista di studi letterari e culturali #AltreModernità

    Il numero 35 indaga, nelle #letterature di lingua spagnola, il rapporto fra la #scrittura e la #materialità nelle sue più diverse dimensioni: dagli oggetti, corpi e spazi che configurano l’esperienza, fino ai modi in cui tali elementi si fanno presenti nei testi.

    ⬇️ In #OpenAccess qui: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMo

    @cultura

    #culturalstudies #literarystudies #latinoamerica #spagna

  15. Online il nuovo numero della rivista di studi letterari e culturali #AltreModernità

    Il numero 35 indaga, nelle #letterature di lingua spagnola, il rapporto fra la #scrittura e la #materialità nelle sue più diverse dimensioni: dagli oggetti, corpi e spazi che configurano l’esperienza, fino ai modi in cui tali elementi si fanno presenti nei testi.

    ⬇️ In #OpenAccess qui: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMo

    @cultura

    #culturalstudies #literarystudies #latinoamerica #spagna

  16. #CCLS2026: 12th and last talk is "From #LiteraryCriticism to #LiteraryStudies: #TopicModeling Argentine Academic Journals (1982–2024)" by Federico Gabriel Cortés, analyzing the topics of 42 years of academic publishing of literary studies research in Argentina.

    Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7981

  17. #CCLS2026: 12th and last talk is "From #LiteraryCriticism to #LiteraryStudies: #TopicModeling Argentine Academic Journals (1982–2024)" by Federico Gabriel Cortés, analyzing the topics of 42 years of academic publishing of literary studies research in Argentina.

    Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7981

  18. Entre os dias 14 e 16 de Maio, a conferência internacional "Literatura & Sociedade" vai examinar as potencialidades do encontro entre as ciências sociais e a literatura, através de uma obra literária e do seu papel na leitura dos processos sociais.

    As suas actividades vão-se distribuir entre a Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, a Casa da Achada e o Museu do Neo-Realismo (VFX).

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/literat

    #Histodons #Anthropodons #Literature #LiteraryStudies #SocialSciences #History

  19. Entre os dias 14 e 16 de Maio, a conferência internacional "Literatura & Sociedade" vai examinar as potencialidades do encontro entre as ciências sociais e a literatura, através de uma obra literária e do seu papel na leitura dos processos sociais.

    As suas actividades vão-se distribuir entre a Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, a Casa da Achada e o Museu do Neo-Realismo (VFX).

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/literat

    #Histodons #Anthropodons #Literature #LiteraryStudies #SocialSciences #History

  20. 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

    #mothersday #Ecofeminism

  21. Reading medieval romances with philosophical theory from Leibniz to Kant, Gadamer, Latour & others, James & Peggy Knapp present a study on 6 core works of #MedievalLiterature and the relation between #aesthetics & reality within them

    #MiddleAges #LiteraryStudies #Hermeneutics

  22. 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

    #EnglishLiterature #metre #MedievalPoetry #LiteraryStudies

  23. 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

  24. 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!

    #JohnFowles #Postmodernism #EnglishLiterature #OTD

  25. Of course you have to send us a postcard from your trips, pretty please! 💝 Find inspiration in this book on #postcards in #Modernism by Bradley D. Clissold, focussing on postcards in the fiction & correspondence of #Hemingway #RingLardner #Joyce & #WilfredOwen

    #MaterialCulture #LiteraryStudies

  26. Of course you have to send us a postcard from your trips, pretty please! 💝 Find inspiration in this book on #postcards in #Modernism by Bradley D. Clissold, focussing on postcards in the fiction & correspondence of #Hemingway #RingLardner #Joyce & #WilfredOwen

    #MaterialCulture #LiteraryStudies

  27. Maybe a trip to the #LakeDistrict next? Joanna E. Taylor & Ian N. Gregory present this innovative, interdisciplinary study bringing together #LiteraryStudies on #Literature & #History of the Lake District 1622-1900, with tools from geography & #digitalhumanities

    #spatialhumanities #Romanticism

  28. Maybe a trip to the #LakeDistrict next? Joanna E. Taylor & Ian N. Gregory present this innovative, interdisciplinary study bringing together #LiteraryStudies on #Literature & #History of the Lake District 1622-1900, with tools from geography & #digitalhumanities

    #spatialhumanities #Romanticism

  29. "How I Became a Tree" by Indian author Sumana Roy is a #nonfiction meditation about #trees & plants & our relation with them, from a perspective of how culture & the arts, science & spiritual leaders engage with nature & a re-enchanted world.

    #CulturalStudies #History #LiteraryStudies #Ecocriticism

  30. 3 new books on trees!🌳
    The Non-Human is a big current paradigm in #Ecocriticism / #LiteraryStudies - here's some new reading material for you:
    This memoir-cum-local history by Ruth Pavey explores her journey of planting "a wood of one's own" in the British countryside in #Somerset

    #History #Memoir

  31. 3 new books on trees!🌳
    The Non-Human is a big current paradigm in #Ecocriticism / #LiteraryStudies - here's some new reading material for you:
    This memoir-cum-local history by Ruth Pavey explores her journey of planting "a wood of one's own" in the British countryside in #Somerset

    #History #Memoir

  32. Book 3), "Toxic Nostalgia on Screen" is an essay collection ed. by Simon Bacon on how the past haunts and feeds on us. 21st c #popculture & #Gothic / #Horror examples illustrate the toxic "undead memory"

    #CulturalStudies #MemoryStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies

  33. Book 3), "Toxic Nostalgia on Screen" is an essay collection ed. by Simon Bacon on how the past haunts and feeds on us. 21st c #popculture & #Gothic / #Horror examples illustrate the toxic "undead memory"

    #CulturalStudies #MemoryStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies

  34. Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

    #ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

  35. Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

    #ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

  36. New #openaccess book!

    'Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories' explores the #memory work and #mnemonic practices of families dispersed by political upheaval. It bridges historical and contemporary perspectives, combining #history, #sociology, #socialpsychology, #literarystudies, #culturalstudies, and cultural #anthropology. The book, edited by Johanna Leinonen et al., is available in PDF, accessible EPUB and print on demand at: hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-35

  37. The Greatest Love Story of All Time for #ValentinesDay ?! A white #Heathcliff ?!
    Absolutely not! ❌
    But we got the real deal in our collection: the full #Gothic force of #EmilyBrontë 's #WutheringHeights - plus lots of resources for your research🖤

    #GothicStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

  38. 🧩📚 How can we #evaluate poetic interpretations produced by #LLMs in a way that aligns with #LiteraryStudies?
    The authors propose a #workflow grounded in reference #interpretations and argumentative structures from literary scholarship, enabling the #assessment of LLM-generated readings.

  39. 🆕 New issue, new article!
    We’re excited to open JCLS 2026, 5(1) with its very first publication:
    “Encoding Imagism? Measuring Literary #Imageability, #Visuality and #Concreteness via Multimodal Word #Embeddings” by Bizzoni, Feldkamp & Nielbo. 📖✨
    #JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryStudies

  40. 🎉 Milestone alert! 🎉
    We’re thrilled to announce our 50th article!

    New in JCLS 4(1): @skorinkin & @nevmenandr “The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature”🔗 doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4228
    #JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryMaps #LiteraryStudies

  41. If you're intrigued by Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein then check out this essay collection, edited by Robert I. Lublin & Elizabeth A. Fay on the afterlives of #MaryShelley 's creation in film, #PopularCulture & other #adaptations

    #AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies

  42. OUT NOW!

    The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
    Ed. by Cairns Craig
    £24.95 | €29.95 | $29.95

    This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION assesses the work of Scottish novelists – writing in English, Gaelic, & Scots – from the eighteenth century to the present, & confronts constructions of nationality, identity, & form.

    Available from all good booksellers & online via Project MUSE

    @litstudies

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #novel #novels #novelists #literarystudies

  43. SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/1
    Spring/Summer 2025

    Special issue

    Scotland’s Branches: Language, Literature & Culture across Time

    Guest edited by Gioia Angeletti & Marina Dossena

    Now online FREE on Open Access via Project MUSE

    @litstudies

    muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

    #Scottish #literature #literarystudies #culturalstudies