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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

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  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. 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