#romanticism — Public Fediverse posts

🧬⚛️ “Science doesn’t demystify the world—it makes it more mysterious.”

In our new #Zoomposium, we speak with #sciencehistorian and #sciencecommunicator #ErnstPeterFischer.

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/10/romantische-revolution/

🎥 https://youtu.be/PlXoYAQ8xV8

#HistoryOfScience #Philosophy #QuantumPhysics #Romanticism #NaturalScience #QuantumTheory #PhilosophyOfScience #Education #Culture #DescriptionOfNature #Objectivity #ScienceCommunication #Cosmos #Physics #Biology

CFP: Hogg’s Worlds Now
2–4 July 2027, University of Glasgow

The James Hogg Society invites paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life & writing & with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish Romanticism

Please submit a 250-word abstract by 31 December 2026

@litstudies

https://jameshoggblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/forthcoming-james-hogg-conference-call.html

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #romanticism #CallforPapers #JamesHogg

🧬⚛️ “Science doesn’t demystify the world—it makes it more mysterious.”

In our new #Zoomposium, we speak with #sciencehistorian and #sciencecommunicator #ErnstPeterFischer.

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/10/romantische-revolution/

🎥 https://youtu.be/PlXoYAQ8xV8

#HistoryOfScience #Philosophy #QuantumPhysics #Romanticism #NaturalScience #QuantumTheory #PhilosophyOfScience #Education #Culture #DescriptionOfNature #Objectivity #ScienceCommunication #Cosmos #Physics #Biology

"The Petitioner," Osman Hamdi Bey, 19th Century.

Osman Hamdi (1842-1910) was quite a fellow; a museum curator, art expert, archaeologist, writer, and all-around intellectual as well as being an influential painter.

Son of a high-ranking official in the Ottoman Empire, he studied art and art history in Paris, before returning to the Ottoman Empire and serving in various official capacities before being named the director of the Imperial Museum. There he worked to modernize archaeology and prevent the smuggling of artifacts out of the country. And all the time, kept on painting.

His work seems to copy the "orientalism" of European artists, which generates controversy today, as some view it as racist. But his work depicts Ottoman culture and tends to show his subjects (often modeled by family members) in active and intellectual roles. He's now seen as subverting Orientalism for his own purposes.

From the Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul.

#Art #OsmanHamdiBey #OttomanArt #Orientalism #Romanticism

Time for another Writing the Occult: Love & Death session briefing! We have speculative fiction writer Verity Holloway joining us, marrying her love of Victorianism and the Gothic to chat about graveyards and the path from 18th century pastoral poems to Romanticism and the Gothic. BYO mossy stones.

Tix/details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co

#horror #gothic #graveyards #cemeteries #ghoststories #romanticism #writers #writing #books #creativity #creativetoots

Went there before the #pandemic and visited Balzac's study
https://www.timeout.com/news/a-museum-dedicated-to-romantic-life-will-reopen-this-valentines-day-in-paris-011926 My photo essay here
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2020/04/25/the-romantic-era-from-france-to-spain/ #balzac #literature #romanticism #delacroix

A curious coincidence? A certain sympathy for the Satanic? Or a testament to the enduring influence of the JUSTIFIED SINNER? Of eight devilish novels chosen by Luke Dumas for the Literary Hub, three – including Hogg’s masterpiece – are by Scottish authors…
😈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

10/10

https://lithub.com/the-darkness-within-8-novels-about-the-devil/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #devil #satan #satanic

In the 3 eerie tales discussed by David Robb ☝️, James Hogg explores the quirks, possibilities, & dark undercurrents of human psychology

👻 Mary Burnet
👺 The Brownie of the Black Haggs
👿 Strange Letter of a Lunatic

Download the free ebook here

9/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/the-devil-i-am-sure/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #supernatural #folklore #doppelganger

To James Hogg’s contemporaries, he was best known for his poems & for his stories – especially his supernatural tales, which often drew on Scottish folklore. Dr David Robb discusses “Mary Burnet”, “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”, & “Strange Letter of a Lunatic”

8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhIQyrJU8c

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #supernatural #folklore #doppelganger

Available on BBC Sounds: Prof Steve Jones chooses James Hogg for this 2003 episode of GREAT LIVES

7/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076dwb

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

“On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwoods 1823)

6/10

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-1824/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #postmodern #metafiction

Dr Morna Fleming discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER at our 2020 Schools Conference

5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoKhq4xDek4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WbTLaABqVVk2xHfJdHDtpms&index=5

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

James Kelman discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER on the Unburied Books podcast, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres, & placing the work in a modern, international context

4/10

https://unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-with-james-kelman

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

“A half-title prefacing Wringhim’s own narrative describes it as ‘Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Sinner. Written by Himself’, inevitably a double categorisation of this most duplicitous of literary works”

Gillian Hughes on James Hogg’s tricks & turns

3/10

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/06/what-can-this-work-be-james-hoggs-the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #memoir

James Hogg’s most famous work is undoubtedly his PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (1824) – “a trenchant religious & social satire, a bloody Gothic tale, a morality play, a compelling account of madness”

2/10

https://johannapolus.medium.com/the-devil-is-a-mirror-77787057a1bc

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”

James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec

🧵

1/10

https://theconversation.com/james-hogg-at-250-the-farmhand-who-became-one-of-scotlands-greatest-storytellers-155534

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

Death of Sardanapalus, Eugene Delacroix (1827), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/10/death-of-sardanapalus-eugene-delacroix.html

#art #paintings #romanticism #delacroix

"Fire needs air, similarly, desire needs space."
Esther Perel on relationships & eroticism
#fridaymood #romanticism #inspirationalquotes

Approaches to Annotation: Insights & Challenges Editing Hogg & Woolf
15 May, University of Glasgow – free

Dr Megan Coyer & Dr Annie Strausa will reflect on two major textual editing projects. What are the different challenges faced by editors annotating modernist short fiction versus short fiction (& poetry) from a late Romantic-era periodical?

@litstudies

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/approaches-to-annotation-insights-and-challenges-editing-hogg-and-woolf-tickets-1313601550599

#Scottish #literature #romanticism #modernism #JamesHogg #VirginiaWoolf #editing

The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive sits at the crossroads of #ComparativeLiterature and the #DigitalHumanities.

It facilitates the collaborative #contextualization of #poems on any expression level (full-text, facsimile, recording, ...)

https://romanticperiodpoetry.org

#Romanticism #DH

"Gate in the Rocks," Karl Freidrich Schinkel, 1818.

Schinkle (1781-1841) was a painter, of course, but also an architect, urban planner, and a designer of furniture and theatrical sets. One of his set designs was the oft-reproduced starry set for Mozart's "The Magic Flute" which you've probably seen somewhere. He also helped chape Berlin from being a small provincial city to a major capitol.

As an architect, he mostly worked in a Neoclassical style until turning to Neo-Gothic in his later life; artistically, he was solidly a Romantic. This dramatic canvas seems to have been influenced by a trip to Friulia, a region of Italy by the German border. If it looks anything like this, I want to go.

From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #KarlFriedrichSchindel

In the 3 eerie tales discussed by David Robb above, James Hogg explores the quirks, possibilities, & dark undercurrents of human psychology

👻 Mary Burnet
👺 The Brownie of the Black Haggs
👿 Strange Letter of a Lunatic

9/10

Download the free ebook here:

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/the-devil-i-am-sure/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #shortfiction #shortstories #gothic #romanticism #folklore #supernatural

“Reading resembles the work of archaeological excavation, an uncovering of layers of pre-existing or co-existing material…”

—Gillian Hughes traces parallels between Robert Wringhim’s fictional CONFESSIONS & Hogg’s own “Memoir of the Author’s Life”

6/10

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/06/what-can-this-work-be-james-hoggs-the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner/#easy-footnote-2-6715

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism #memoir

“On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

“A Scots Mummy” – Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwood’ Magazine, 1823)

5/10

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-1824/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism

James Kelman discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER on the Unburied Books podcast, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres, & placing the work in a modern, international context

4/10

https://unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-with-james-kelman

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism

Dr Morna Fleming discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER at our 2020 Schools Conference

3/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoKhq4xDek4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WbTLaABqVVk2xHfJdHDtpms&index=5

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism

James Hogg’s most famous work is undoubtedly his PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (1824) – “a trenchant religious & social satire, a bloody Gothic tale, a morality play, a compelling account of madness”

@bookstodon

2/10

https://johannapolus.medium.com/the-devil-is-a-mirror-77787057a1bc

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism

"Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin," Carl Gustav Carus, c. 1828.

German-born Carus (1789-1869) wasn't just an artist...he was also a doctor, naturalist, scientist, and psychologist, and he studied landscape painting under the great Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, whose influence can be seen here.

He was personal physician to King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, and traveled with him to meet Queen Victoria. As a naturalist, he originated the notion of vertebrates vs. invertebrates, gently revolutionizing biology. He was also a prolific author, writing books on zoology, nature, medicine, psychology, travel, and art theory.

Here we have a scene from inside a ruined monastery, built in 1369 and abandoned in 1546, and which became a favorite haunt of the Romantics in the 1820s. Despite the Gothic material, the feeling it gives is almost positive and hopeful, looking through the ruins to a new day.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CarlGustaveCarus #Gothic #Ruins #RenaissanceMan

@Vagrarian
“There werewolf... (Other side). There werewolf...”

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps

"Mountains in the Rising Fog," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835.

Friedrich (1774-1840) seems perfect for spooky season; his Romantic landscapes, once nearly forgotten, have been rediscovered by a new generation of Romantics....although it was a bumpy ride, with his work being briefly co-opted by the Nazi party, then dismissed in the face of growing modernism, and then being exploited by Disney and horror-movie makers. In the 1970s he began to be taken seriously again and now is the subject of many a museum exhibit.

The view is of the Rosenberg, in Bohemian Switzerland. Makes the imagination go wild, eh? Dark castles, swordfights, mad scientists, curses, witches...whatever your mind can dream up...

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps

"Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1823-35.

Happy birthday to Caspar David Friedrich, born this day in 1774!

He was THE great Romantic artist, often doing allegorical paintings of human figures contemplating some natural scene that dwarfs them...or maybe Gothic ruins (because, after all, Gothicism is an outgrowth of Romanticism).

Here he's got a small human figure pausing by the side of a lake in a dramatic mountain landscape. If you squint a little, you can make out a large building on the other side of the lake, perhaps a palace of some sort (just over the man's head) but it's overwhelmed in size and majesty by the lake and the mountains. This is Friedrich's message...that Nature will always be bigger than Man.

His tragedy was that he outlived his fame; his style went out of fashion and when he died in 1840, he was lonely and half-forgotten. But in modern times he's been rediscovered and his art revived...especially as it's now in public domain and has been used as cover art for various editions of Gothic novels and the like. His dramatic views help set the tone.

From a private collection.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #landscape

"Geroldsauer Valley Close to Baden-Baden," Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855.

Schirmer (1807-1863) started as a painter of historical scenes, but later found his calling as a landscape painter, one of the founding members of what was later known as the Dusseldorf School. His work embraced both Classicism and Romanticism, and also included Biblical scenes.

Here we have a real-life valley in Germany, depicts an early morning in that golden time of late summer/early fall. A woman with a parasol and a young man (lower right) are wandering, taking in the air. Below us stretches a vista of farm fields, trees, and scattered houses, including a mill. A road stretches through the valley, following a stream. In the distance we have various peaks of the Black Forest mountains, realistically depicted.

I love this scene; it reminds me so much of the Appalachian scenery of my home.

From the Staatsliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #JohannWilhelmSchirmer #Landscapes #Drama #Mountains #Nostalgia

Perambulations of a Justified Sinner
10–25 Aug, Edinburgh International Book Festival
£7/£6/£5

Make your mobile phone a portal back to James Hogg’s Edinburgh, & travel through the Old Town to experience some of his iconic novel’s most important scenes exactly where they were set

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism #JamesHogg #JustifiedSinner

https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/perambulations-of-a-justified-sinner-1

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

Listening to #GautierCapuçon and #YujaWang : #Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19

#cello #piano #Romanticism #ClassicalMusic #HiRes

Venice with the Salute, 1845 #romanticism #williamturner https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-turner/venice-with-the-salute-1845

#CFP for the Journal Romance, Revolution, and Reform on #Feeling in the Nineteenth Century #VictorianStudies #Romanticism #AffectTheory

Boscastle, Cornwall #romanticism #williamturner https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-turner/boscastle-cornwall

Part of St Mark Venice, 1846 #romanticism #johnruskin https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-ruskin/part-of-st-mark-venice-1846

Kidwelly Castle #williamturner #romanticism https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-turner/kidwelly-castle

It's true. When i heard the phrase 'Old Masters,' I always thought of men artists. How narrow-minded of me. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/design/michaelina-wautier-artist-boston.html
#oldmasters #arthistory #artmuseum #artcollector #flemishart #renaissance #romanticism