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  1. The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive's updated networks view introduces pivoting and faceting, adds a browsable index of concepts, and aggregates large clusters, rendering the corpus's contextual relations legible for #comparative study:

    romanticperiodpoetry.org/

    #Romanticism #19thC

  2. From 2024: Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman examines the representation of English & Scottish national stereotypes in the novels of Scottish authors Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, & Elizabeth Hamilton

    From the Reading Scotland project at the University of Mainz

    10/10

    youtube.com/watch?v=z_OKYRVugZs

    #Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #ElizabethHamilton

  3. “Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

    —an 1893 article in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 contrasting Sussan Ferrier & Jane Austen

    8/10

    theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

    #Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten

  4. A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Patricia Hannah was repeated in 2025 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again…

    6/10

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f

    #Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #adaptation #radiodrama

  5. “It is a truth universally acknowledged…”

    Susan Ferrier’s 2nd novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 (1824) starts with a nod & wink to Jane Austen’s 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 (1813). In 1818, Blackwood’s paid £150 for 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦; it is a testament to Ferrier’s popularity that they paid £1000 for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

    2/10

    #Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten

  6. Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels – 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, & 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 – are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary Jane Austen, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious…

    A 🎂🧵

    1/10

    nls.uk/collections/stories/lit

    #Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten #humour #satire

  7. "Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.

    Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.

    What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.

    Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.

    That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.

    From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

    #Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar

  8. Ah, the good ol' days of loving computers 🤖❤️, when nerds were fueled by #floppy #disks and not by Silicon Valley snake oil. Who knew an overgrown calculator could inspire such poetry and profound #nostalgia, while #AI #villains cackle in the background? Clearly, the author missed the memo: the '90s called, they want their #tech #romanticism back! 😂
    michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-t #90s #HackerNews #ngated

  9. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
    And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…

    James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time” – oceans evaporating, rocks melting – to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?

    2/3

    sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/

    #Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #romanticism #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Musical DNA of But Live It — Steely Dan

    Steely Dan have always felt like a universe of their own. The precision, the warmth, the studio craftsmanship, songs built like little films.

    But beneath all that perfection there’s also a quiet longing, a kind of understated romanticism that runs through their harmonies and stories. That blend of sophistication and emotional depth shaped how I think about sound.

    #SteelyDan #JazzPop #ArtPop #IndieMusic #Romanticism #MusicMastodon #indieartist #bandcamp

  13. From 2024: Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman examines the representation of English & Scottish national stereotypes in the novels of Scottish authors Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, & Elizabeth Hamilton

    Part of the Reading Scotland programme at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

    8/8

    youtube.com/watch?v=z_OKYRVugZs

    #Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #ElizabethHamilton

  14. I was 22 when I read the once famous but now long forgotten novel The Titan (1803) by Jean Paul (1763 -1825), Germany's belated echo of England's Laurence Sterne.

    The chapters in The Titan aren't called "chapters" like in any other book. Instead each is a "Jobelperiode", "Jubilation period" or perhaps "Joohbilation Period". So having finished say chapter 22, the reader turns the page and enters "The Twentythird Joohbilation Period".

    The concept was liberating. Style can subvert. Convention has no claim on any of us.

    When I encountered the Jobelperiode I knew there was a role for me as a writer. Not a novelist or poet, but a science writer with poetic urgency. Forty years later, I agree with my younger self. I write mostly for my students. Long notes of precise analytical exposition, with the occasional intervention of the unexpected poetic liberty, the confident breach of protocol. Jean Paul's Jobelperiode has stayed with me.

    #JeanPaul #style #writing #Romanticism #Jobelperiode

  15. The Dedication (1908) by Edmund Blair Leighton (English artist, lived 1852–1922). For most of it's existence this was categorised by the art world as a "missing painting" - known to most only by a 1908 black and white photogravure. Sold (I think) in 2013. Arthurian looking scene.

    #Arthurian #MiddleAges #art #Architecture #fineart #peacefulart #arthistory #Romanticism #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #PreRaphaelite #19thcentury #MissingArt

  16. The Dedication (1908) by Edmund Blair Leighton (English artist, lived 1852–1922). For most of it's existence this was categorised by the art world as a "missing painting" - known to most only by a 1908 black and white photogravure. Sold (I think) in 2013. Arthurian looking scene.

    #Arthurian #MiddleAges #art #Architecture #fineart #peacefulart #arthistory #Romanticism #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #PreRaphaelite #19thcentury #MissingArt

  17. The Dedication (1908) by Edmund Blair Leighton (English artist, lived 1852–1922). For most of it's existence this was categorised by the art world as a "missing painting" - known to most only by a 1908 black and white photogravure. Sold (I think) in 2013. Arthurian looking scene.

    #Arthurian #MiddleAges #art #Architecture #fineart #peacefulart #arthistory #Romanticism #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #PreRaphaelite #19thcentury #MissingArt