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  1. Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture

    #VictorianStudies

  2. Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture

    #VictorianStudies

  3. Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture

    #VictorianStudies

  4. "Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays

    #VictorianStudies

  5. "Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays

    #VictorianStudies

  6. "Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays

    #VictorianStudies

  7. "Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays

    #VictorianStudies

  8. "Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays

    #VictorianStudies

  9. Book # 2 of our thematic week:
    Jillian M. Hess's study "How #Romantics and #Victorians Organized Information" examines #commonplace books, scrapbooks & albums as mediums of organizing knowledge & people, too!

    #VictorianCulture #Romanticism #CulturalStudies #MaterialCulture

  10. "Rites of Passage" by Judith Flanders has arrived at our library - providing a deeply researched analysis of the weird & wonderful mourning customs, beliefs around death and dying & burial rites of #VictorianCulture.

    #VictorianStudies #BritishStudies #BritishHistory

  11. Jennifer deVere Brody's 1998 study Impossible Purities examines #Blackness, Femininity & #VictorianCulture in the context of the contrast of Black & white, American & English characters in 19th c fiction

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    #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackWomen #LiteraryStudies

  12. As #syphilis is currently trending in online debates, here's an in-depth read on the depiction of the disease in #VictorianLiterature & #VictorianCulture!

    Monika Pietrzak-Franger's study can be found here & ordered via interlibrary loan:
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    #MedicalHumanities