#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts
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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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Agriculture - just a trap? Cates Baldridge analyses narratives of the agriculturalist ideology in a variety of canonical #EnglishLiterature texts from 16th c to the present, incl. #Frankenstein #Shakespeare #WutheringHeights #Coetzee & more
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British author Brian Aldiss was #BOTD 100 years ago!
Apart from many famous #sciencefiction works, incl. his #Helliconia trilogy & "Supertoys Last All Summer Long", adapted as #Spielberg's "A.I.", he also wrote general fiction, poetry & non-fiction on SF#BOTD #BrianAldiss #BrianAldiss100 #ScienceFictionWriters #BritishWriters #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature
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What better time is there to enjoy a good literary #Adaptation than autumn?! 🍂
Here's 2 newcomers in our collection, on #AdaptationStudies: one on #AgathaChristie #FilmAdaptations & one on #PennyDreadful!#FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #BritishStudies #EnglishLiterature