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Sophie Franklin @sophiefranklin.bsky.social · 6d

My book, 'Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives', is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! It's the first major study of violence in the Brontës' fiction and afterlives, and I'd be thrilled if you ordered a copy for your library:
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...

Violence and the Brontës

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 5d

Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies

We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!

Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.

@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

OLHJ_CfP.pdf

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 6d

🚨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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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 7d

October is the best month for some monstrously fun entertainment. On Halloween @cncsi.bsky.social will be hosting a chillingly-good online workshop: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives. I hope you can join us. It will be a real screamer! 👻

Details👇
cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives - CNCSI

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives Free and Online One-Day Halloween Workshop Friday 31st October, 10.45 am ̶ 5.00 pm (Central European Time) Registration is required. Sign up here. The Centre ...

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 7d

Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 9d

We are currently open to receiving proposals for themed issues with @advancesjournal.bsky.social, which is published through Taylor and Francis, and is the official journal of @incsa.bsky.social. If you have ideas for a collection, email me.

Details👇
in-csa.com/themed-speci...

Special / Themed Issues Call for Proposals – International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research The Journal of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) Follow on BlueSky Advances in Ninetee...

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 15d

People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.

The People of Print

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print

www.cambridge.org

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 16d

Victorian Network's special issue "Victorian Pedagogy" is out today, including my article "The Moralist Critic and the Student Activist: A Reconsideration"!

www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...

A prominent right-wing truism holds that there is something ‘Victorian’ about the aesthetic judgment of rising generations of the left; that, in the words of Coddling of the American Mind co-author Greg Lukianoff, campus activists echo ‘the thinking of the old Victorian censors.’ Without accepting these terms, I suggest that resistance to this discourse should spur Victorianists to reconsider certain habitual scholarly dismissals made on uncomfortably parallel grounds. For those of us who take seriously contemporary activists’ critiques, what might it mean to take seriously the Victorian moral criticism to which those critiques are persistently compared? In a cultural moment of hyper-alertness to what’s problematic about art, might we be able to better appreciate the conceptual work of certain much-maligned nineteenth-century strategies of aesthetic evaluation? Through presentist, methodologically-oriented readings of Lady Eastlake’s 1848 infamous attack on Jane Eyre in the Quarterly Review and F.R. Leavis’s The Great Tradition, I argue that a “moralist” method links nineteenth-century critics, scholarly Victorianists, and cultural activists, and that scholarly repression of this moralism opens the field up to right-wing cooptation and reactionary thought.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 19d

Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...

Gulliver’s Afterlives

The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyag…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 19d

This is exciting - looking forward to it more now!

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 19d

📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social

I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again.

Please share!

Yellow and black front cover of The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt. Published by The British Library.

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks, Dom - enjoyable working with you as always! This is an excellent interview, & @englishstudies.bsky.social is very grateful for your earlier contributions to the series.

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 20d

My interview with David Szalay is now out in @englishstudies.bsky.social. We discussed his latest novel, Flesh (since longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize); his explorations of migration and masculinity; and the affective and neurological dimensions of his style. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The English Studies Interview with David Szalay: In Conversation with Dominic Dean

David Szalay is a Hungarian-British author. His first novel, London and the South East (2008), won the Betty Trask Award, while in 2016 All That Man Is was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Sza...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 22d

Publishing today!

Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social

The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies

Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 22d

Incredibly excited to be able to announce the launch of our London Journal database, compiled by Robert Shoemaker and David Green, with help from @tandfresearch.bsky.social, which offers a valuable insight into how the study of the metropolis's past and present has shifted over the past 50 years. 🧵

Database | The London Journal

The database can be interrogated online. The columns can be sorted by clicking on the column header: one click will sort ascending, and a second click with sort descending. Sorting is only available when no search term is present.

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 26d

Heads-up that the CFP submissions deadline for the 2026 Dickens Society NeMLA panel has been extended until September 30th!

Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Abstracts due today, if anyone's still considering the 2026 Dickens Society panel at NeMLA!

The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · Aug 9

We are currently seeking submissions for the 2026 NeMLA panel “(Re)generating Dickens Studies” on social media. Link is here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

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Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social · 28d

What day is it sir? Why it's DICKENS DAY sir! Join us in London on 11 October for a day of readings and papers on the theme of Dickens and Art. More details and booking form here:

ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Dickens Day 2025 - ‘Dickens and Art’

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Abstracts due today, if anyone's still considering the 2026 Dickens Society panel at NeMLA!

The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · Aug 9

We are currently seeking submissions for the 2026 NeMLA panel “(Re)generating Dickens Studies” on social media. Link is here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣Only one week left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15 September 2025

More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship

Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

Poster of the Tennyson Talks 4th Series indicating that events are at 7.30pm London time on the first Thursday of each month, held via Zoom. Joining details can be obtained from Professor Valerie Purton.

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Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us for Musical Adaptation in Practice -an @adaptationtoday.bsky.social event exploring how composers and performers bring stories to life through sound, puppets, and live performance.

Dec 12, 12PM EST
Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#AdaptationStudies #FilmMusic #TheaterAdaptation

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English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 Our most recent special issue on Posthumanism and English Studies explores the literary #posthuman, with a poignant focus on environmental studies & speculative fiction. Read the #openaccess introduction by guest editors Prof. Başak Ağın and Dr Z. Gizem Yılmaz here 🌱: #anthropocene #ecocriticism

Introduction: Towards an Ecological Posthumanism in English Studies

Since Ihab Hassan’s 1977 “Prometheus as Performer” that heralded the posthuman as a model reaching beyond the postmodern, the concept and its related theories known as posthumanism(s) have prolifer...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 4

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP

RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yes, that trailer is ... something. On a nerdier, punctuation-based note, I have a minor obsession about adaptation titles that change 'and' to '&', such as the 2005 P&P.

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not sure why the title is in quotation marks.

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