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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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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 -
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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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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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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Day 2 of #DGAVL 2025 #conference had fascinating talks by Daniel Weidner on confessions in the #autofiction s of KO Knausgard, Annie Ernaux & Sheila Heti, and by Sara R Gallardo on #autobiographies by psychiatrized authors, from 19th c to today #MadMovement #MadStudies
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Some highlights of this #DGAVL #conference include @NitzkeSolvejg's talk on tree/nature/ #lifewriting as well as Monika Schmitz-Emans on artists' books, Beatrice Nickel on graphic #autobiographies & Patrick Lars Müller on autobiographical accounts of encounters w #aliens 👽- very diverse topics!
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"Troubling Late #Modernism" by Doug Battersby analyses how #postwarnovel|s by #Nabokov, #SamuelBeckett, #ToniMorrison, #JohnBanville, #Coetzee & #EimearMcBride exploit & extend #modernist forms of narration, esp. at the opposition of #ethics & emotion
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This 2021 essay collection, edited by Baisnée-Keay et al, explores the relationship between words & images in women’s #lifewriting & visual art incl Georgia O'Keeffe, Alison Bechdel, Zelda Fitzgerald & more
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1776482328
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2 new books for all enthusiasts of women's #biographies & #lifewriting in our collection!
Find out more in the replies!