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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Apr 16

We are the @dfg.de -funded Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst) Anglo-American Culture #FIDAAC at SUB Göttingen & Branch Library North American Studies at University Library, FU Berlin.
Follow us for publications from all anglophone cultures & news for the scientific community!

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 5h

#AustralianStudies

IxTheo @ixtheo.bsky.social · 3d

Die Artikel der Zeitschrift „The Australian Journal of Anthropology“ sind jetzt für den gesamten bisherigen Erscheinungsverlauf (1990–2025) vollständig in IxTheo nachgewiesen. Alle Artikel haben einen Link zum Volltext:
ixtheo.de/Search/Resul...

Search Results - superior_ppn:341898244 :: IxTheo

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 6h

Written for the sesquicentenary: Jack Davis's play 'Kullark' (Home). opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=...

Göttinger Universitätskatalog (GUK) - results/titledata

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 7h

#GASt2025: The second opening keynote by Shino Konishi discusses WAY 79, the Western Australian 150th anniversary, and the struggle for Aboriginal self-determination. Here are some books published as part of the event: opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/SET=5/T...

Göttinger Universitätskatalog (GUK) - results/shortlist

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 7h

Day 2 of #GASt2025 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Check out the programme here: australienstudien.org/de/gast-okt-... #AustralianStudies

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 23h

It's time! Follow the kangaroo to the 2nd floor of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. Coming up: The opening keynote by Les Malezer. #GASt2025 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 1d

I Have a Wodehouse Problem. The Problem Is I Can’t Stop Reading Him

I have to limit myself to three pages at a go, once per day, with the first cup of coffee

by Mark Migotti

thewalrus.ca/i-have-a-wod...

P. G. Wodehouse at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature

Image of the writer PG Wodehouse from 1930.

Wodehouse is shown standing outdoors, dressed in a suit and overcoat, with a hat. He looks relaxed and content, smiling broadly.

He holds something in his hands, giving a casual, informal air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse#/media/File:P.G._Wodehouse,_1930.jpg

https://archive.org/details/screenland21unse/page/n424/mode/1up

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 4d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce
thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/members-pages/john-bryce.php

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 1d

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 3d

The comments 🫀

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 5d

Auntie Zelda stung by jellyfish and shed her skin.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 6d

WHY HAS THE MOTHER GOT DRUNK.
WHY IS THE WORLD GOING ROUND.
WHY IS THERE FOOTBALL ON TV.
WHY HAS THAT PINK DUCK ONLY GOT ONE LEG.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 3d

Is this call still open? It says the deadline for a first proposal was in June 25?

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 3d

This study by Donna Varga looks at the interplay of colonialism & monstrous Othering of animals in #ChildrensLiterature & culture, considering a variety of canonical & non-canonical animal characters

#PostColonialStudies #CulturalStudies #monsters #animalstudies #nonhumanstudies #ecocriticism

The book "The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children’s Books, Films, and Toys" on a tree trunk

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 3d

Today it's 2 new #NonHumanStudies / #animalstudies books with wolves on the cover! 🐺🐺
Editors Kenneth K. Brandt & @karinmd.bsky.social present essays on the nonhuman in literary naturalism, w #AmericanLiterature authors #JackLondon #Hemingway #WillaCather #EdithWharton & more

#ecocriticism

The book "The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism" on a large tree trunk

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 4d

What intriguing cover art!

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 5d

FYI: Guillermo del Toro is previewing FRANKENSTEIN as part of a special one-night event supporting the Los Angeles Public Library.

Get A Sneak Peek At Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN And Help Support The Los Angeles Public Library

Guillermo del Toro is previewing FRANKENSTEIN as part of a special one-night event supporting the Los Angeles Public Library.

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are very happy to take any queries, please just email us at [email protected].

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 4d

#CallforPapers #CfP on #VictorianLiterature #SensationFiction & the #HealthHumanities

Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process
print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa

CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities
A VPFA Study Day
Loughborough University, 27 March 2026

The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change.

Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world.

20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine
• The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 5d

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films, coming soon. ⁠🎬🎞️
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Whilst you wait, catch up on all our previous films. Which has been your favourite to date?
https://youtube.pulse.ly/2uninui9he

Shortlist films

Watch actors performing extracts from shortlisted Booker and International Booker books.

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Lars von Törne @larsvontoerne.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Birthday, Snoopy! www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/75-ja... via @tagesspiegel.de

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Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Birthday to writer Gore Vidal (born Oct 3, 1925 – died 2012).

Novelist, essayist, political critic, and bisexual icon, he challenged convention and shaped American culture.

#GoreVidal #QueerHistory

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 7d

"How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself."

100th Anniversary ✒ #GoreVidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic, was #BOTD 3 October 1925. #Literature

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 7d

Find a total of 90 works related to Gore Vidal in our online catalogue: opac.sub.uni-goettin...