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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

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  2. "Re-Reading the Age of Innovation", edited by Louisa Kane, collects 14 essays on the subject of newness: new inventions, new forms in #VictorianLiterature & #Modernism - 1830–1950
    Authors discussed incl #Dickens #Conrad #Hardy #Woolf #CharlotteMew #ElíasMar & #WalterFrancesWhite

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  3. "Writing the Brain" by Stefan Schöberlein looks at how C19 literature in Britain & the US incorporated discourses from the emerging neuroscience. Authors discussed incl #GeorgeCombe #CharlesDickens #EmilyDickinson #PlinyEarle #BenjaminRush & #AlfredTennyson

    #VictorianStudies #MedicalHumanities

  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

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  5. The book "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detectives" by Sara Lodge contrasts the adventurous fictional female detectives of #VictorianLiterature with their real-life, historical counterparts in GB & USA

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    #WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #VictorianStudies

  6. How was Christmas celebrated in the #VictorianEra and how did #Dickens influence the holiday customs of his time?
    Find out in "Dickens' Christmas" by Simon Callow & "The Man Who Invented Christmas" by Les Standiford!

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    #VictorianStudies #biography

  7. The final day of our thematic week takes us to the movies: "The Story of #VictorianFilm" by Bryony Dixon & the British Film Institute is a time-machine trip to the birth of film & a field-guide to film genres of the #VictorianAge

    #VictorianStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies

  8. We move to book # 4 in our thematic series & to mass-media #PrintCulture: the essay collection ed. by Paul Raphael Rooney & Anna Gasperini on media & print culture consumption in 19th c Britain & reader motivations

    #VictorianStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #MediaStudies

  9. From A (Archeologist) to Z (Zealots): Sarah Ogilvie's "The Dictionary People" covers in 26 chapters (1 for each letter of the alphabet) the "unsung heroes" who created the #OxfordEnglishDictionary - incl. a cannibal, New Zealanders, murderers, queer folk, women & #CharlotteYonge

    #VictorianStudies

  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. Yesterday, day 2 of the #VictorianDarknesses conference in Vechta saw Pamela K Gilbert's keynote on self-destructive #Victorians, many intriguing talks & a trip to Bremen incl an amusing tour w a "historical" nightwatchman - very fitting to the darkness theme!

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  12. Today was the 1st day of the #VictorianDarknesses #conference at University of Vechta, w the welcome address by organisers Norbert Lennartz, Carolin Sternberg & Jacqueline Kolditz & talks by Jochen Achilles & Swantje van Mark

    #VictorianStudies #VictorianLiterature #EnglishLiterature

  13. At the start of the year I finished reading George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. It's regarded as 'unjustly neglected'. I'm not sure. Some bold comic strokes, caricature, and social satire, turning darker and more tragic at the end. Moving on to modern novels now. #TeamEnglish #novels #VictorianStudies #19thcLit

  14. At the start of the year I finished reading George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. It's regarded as 'unjustly neglected'. I'm not sure. Some bold comic strokes, caricature, and social satire, turning darker and more tragic at the end. Moving on to modern novels now. #TeamEnglish #novels #VictorianStudies #19thcLit

  15. I'm at a loss for this juror's surname. I thought maybe "Glad" or some variation, but no luck. When this happens, I often find them in the Electoral Register since jurors were often geographically clumped near one another, but I've found no candidate for this man. #Victodon #VictorianStudies

  16. Anyone here in #VictorianStudies or expert in #HistoryofEugenics #Eugenics I am trying to figure out the identity of J.M. who wrote the "General Introduction" to "New Tracts for the Times" a pamphlet series to which #HavelockEllis contributed with a volume titled "The Problem of Race Regeneration". The series was published by the National Council of Public Morals". Thanks for any help.

  17. My #introduction: I am a writer, poet, and scholar whose work focuses on place, #labor, the intersection between prose and poetics, #race, and the nineteenth-century novel. My fiction and poetry are often #surreal. I teach literature and composition at University of Maine at Augusta and at Farmington.

    Header image: from George Eliot’s Romola.

    #VictorianStudies #Victodon #C19Studies

  18. 'Microcosm dedicated to the London Water Companies. Brought forth all #monstrous, all prodigious things, hydras and organs, and chimeras dire ... #Monster Soup commonly called Thames Water being a correct representation of that precious stuff doled out to us!' (1828). British #Water companies still pumping raw #sewage into our #rivers and #bathing areas & sea. #Thames #openwater #pollution #ukpolitics #VictorianStudies #19thCentury

  19. I am become remediated !!

    Bumbling through the second draft of an #introduction : I’m an English PhD at UNC-Chapel Hill doing #VictorianStudies (#Victodon ??) interested in #information theory, #narrative, truth-telling, action in crises, and most recently, the special kind of unsettling media affect you get from adjusting to Mastodon!!

    Other interests include #criticaltheory , #utopianism , #C19 with a splash of #C20 , and #activism.

  20. #Introduction: hi everyone, I teach at CUNY, and I'm a Victorianist who works on ethics of care, disability studies, feminist criticism, material culture, Victorian women's writing. #VictorianStudies #Victodon #Histodon #LitStudies #AcademicMastodon #CUNY #disability #care