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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 3d

Monday #morningread
from a newly published cool book by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social:
The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands

From The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, ed. Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here:
Deadline Sunday 30 November.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101

BARS Biennial Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection – Updates and Call for Papers Announced – BARS Blog

www.bars.ac.uk

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 8d

Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳

Article cover image of a blossoming branch in front of a stack of books

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 21d

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!

www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Vol. 61 (2025) | The BARS Review

www.bars.ac.uk

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 24d

📣CFP: 'Byron and Identity', 2026 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, deadline 1 January 2026
👉 www.thebyronsociety.com/call-for-pap...

#AcademicSky #Romanticism #LordByron

@bars.bsky.social
@byronsociety.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social

Portrait of Lord Byron in a heavy gilded frame; it hangs from chains on a wall in Newstead Abbey, covered in cream and red, strapwork wallpaper

A view of Newstead Abbey from the far side of Eagle Pond

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 10d

Pretty thread of word clouds of the Brontë Poems from 1846 with individual ones per Brontë sister 🖤🩵💚🧡

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15d

Word Cloud of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Red and turquoise words on a dark background with love, thee, thy, will, and heart being obvious

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14d

Diverted from my research on Emily Brontë into reading Anne Carson’s funny and terrifying poem ‘The Glass Essay’ about her (and lost love and freedom and loneliness and horror) - the bits about Charlotte made me laugh out loud 🖤 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/...

Charlotte's preface to Wuthering Heights is a publicist's masterpiece.
Like someone carefully not looking at a
scorpion
crouched on the arm of the sofa Charlotte

talks firmly and calmly
about the other furniture of Emily's
workshop-about
the inexorable spirit ("stronger than a man,
simpler than a child"),

the cruel illness ("pain no words can
render"),
the autonomous end ("she sank rapidly, she
made haste to leave us")
and about Emily's total subjection

to a creative project she could neither
understand nor control,
and for which she deserves no more praisenor blame
than if she had opened her mouth

"to breathe lightning." The scorpion is inching down
the arm of the sofa while Charlotte continues to speak helpfully about lightning

and other weather we may expect to
experience
when we enter Emily's electrical
atmosphere.
It is "a horror of great darkness" that awaits us there

but Emily is not responsible. Emily was in the grip.
"Having formed these beings she did not know what she had done,"
says Charlotte (of Heathcliff and Earnshaw and Catherine).

Well there are many ways of being held
prisoner.
The scorpion takes a light spring and lands on our left knee
as Charlotte concludes,"On herself she had no pity.”

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15d

LOL

So, the whole ms of the Brontë poems is 192 pages, 26,084 words.

Anne’s poetry makes up 44 of these pages, 5,563 words.

Emily: 45 pages, 5,960 words.

Charlotte… 103 pages! 14,563 words!!

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 10d

@ehunineteen.bsky.social WILL. BE. BACK!

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 10d

We had a bit of a fallow year last year because *gestures at everything* BUT we have exciting plans afoot for 2025/2026 so… WATCH THIS SPACE 👀

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 23d

Vote for Sarah!!

Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · 23d

This is your friendly reminder to VOTE in the @royalhistsoc.org Council elections. Not necessarily for me (though if you felt moved in that direction it would be appreciated), but for any candidates you feel represent you and your experiences of 'doing' History. #skystorians #academicsky 🗃️

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 26d

Something for the weekend?

My essay on Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, thinking about sex, and who is speaking in a poem - in fine company in the very timely Ekphrasis edition of the wonderful Dilettante Army

John Keats Getting It On a Grecian Urn

Prompted by a rhetorical study guide question, “Is the urn’s slenderness and round opening attractive?”, Andrew McInnes has his own question about lyric voice and unfulfilled desire: “Does Keats want ...

dilettantearmy.com

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Sep 7

New video out on our TikTok page about Chloe’s trip to see Frankenstein: The Musical (directed by @catherinequirk.bsky.social) at Edge Hill University last month: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqGJcBf/

TikTok - Make Your Day

vm.tiktok.com

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 27d

Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month.

Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th

Your La vie Parisienne cover by birth month. On left is an image of a woman in a billowing shirt, breeches and striped stockings and a jaunty hat, holding an artists palette. On right in an Amazon, clad in helmet and Minoan style two-piece, brandishing spear and shield

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Dr Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social · 26d

Rather surprised to see a picture of myself on the TV listing! I’m not presenting it — just one of several talking heads.

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 26d

Tune in to see our own @digivictorian.bsky.social on the railways 🚂

Dr Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social · 26d

I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4.

It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 29d

Check out our own @drbeard79.bsky.social’s essay about John Keats wanting to fuck the Grecian Urn with the brilliant Dilettante Army 🖤

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Sep 9

So, I wrote a thing about my vase-fucking skeet and resulting thread with thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, @philistella.bsky.social, & @gothicbodies.bsky.social for inspiration PLUS a shout out to a very old *undergraduate* essay by @joanpassey.bsky.social

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 29d

Call for 2025 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize for best work in History &/or Philosophy of Modern Physics by a student as part of a Masters Thesis. Prize incl a 2000 euro award, invitation to give a talk at Radboud U, & publish in Foundations of Physics.
Nomination by supervisor by October 6
#HPS ⚛️

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 29d

Hey, Bostonians & more far-flung friends, the Novel Theory seminar I co-convene at Harvard has a cool line-up for the fall: a roundtable on the Novel in the Age of AI, Margaret Cohen on Claire de Duras, JC Cloutier on Nick Drnaso.
You are so welcome to join us! (occasionally even on Zoom)

The Novel in the Age of AI: A Roundtable with Elyse Graham, Benjamin Mangrum, and Tom Comitta, Sept 30th at 6 p.m. in Barker Center 133; Margaret Cohen on Claire de Duras: "Who Has the Right to Tragedy?", October 14th at 6 p.m. in Barker Center, Room 133; a Zoom Reading Group on Nick Drnaso's Sabrina, led by Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Nov. 5, at 6 p.m on Zoom

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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · 29d

Breathtaking! Thanks to Oxford World’s Classics for making this dual edition of Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’ & ‘The Journal of Sorrow’ possible & beautiful! Out in Feb in UK, May in US—in the bicentennial year of these literary masterpieces.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Aug 27

I really loved writing this about Austen’s best novel and hope you love it (and the novel) too!

Please vote with pride and prejudice for Pride & Prejudice!!

What was Jane Austen’s best novel? These experts think they know

Six leading Austen experts have made their case for her ultimate novel, but the winner is down to you.

theconversation.com

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come and find out more about Jane Austen with our own @drbeard79.bsky.social !

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Aug 11

Jumping on the Jane Austen bandwagon and offering a short course from Halloween to her birthday (approx!) - join me! Or help me spread the word! Please and thank you!!

Jane Austen: Reading, Romance, Revolution - Edge Hill University

Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary with Jane Austen: Reading, Romance, Revolution—a course for book lovers exploring her novels through fresh historical and critical lenses, from the French Rev...

www.edgehill.ac.uk

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 21

CFP for Sex in the #19thC (deets in alt)

Abstracts (300 words), biographies (100 words), and should be submitted on Monday 22d September 2025 to rrr @ soton.ac.uk. Please
indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, and include your full name, discipline & institution.

CFP with caricature of a throuple on a sofa: a man in the middle between two women with breasts more or less exposed

Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century
15th January 2026
University of Stirling, Scotland
Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Shaw
In The History of Sexuality (1976), Foucault outlines the 'discursive explosion' that occurred around
sex during the long nineteenth century. Sexuality became a distinct personal identity for the first time, as shown in literature and art, and sexual discourses often reflected the period's political and
social anxieties around gender and power. Modern queer theorists first situated their work within
nineteenth-century studies (Eve Kofosky Sedgewick, Between Men, 1985), and recent work in the
field historicises marginalised groups (Jen Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History, 2020). Sex
encourages us to consider the broader cultural and societal dynamics of the long nineteenth century, and the lasting influence of these structures today.
We invite papers of 15 minutes on the topic of sex in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914) in all its forms and in a global context for our in-person conference. We encourage broad interpretations of the topic and invite submissions that explore its fluid and multifaceted nature. The journal
encourages multi- and interdisciplinary papers from across the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities and invites contributions from those at any career stage, including PGRs and ECRs.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Sexuality and queer studies • Women's writing
• Gender, feminism, and masculinities • Sexual health, contraception, and the medical
• Trans studies humanities
• Pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare • Sex work
• Sex scandals in court and politics • Print culture; pornography and Victorian erotica
• Gothic literature • Postcolonial and ecocritical perspectives on
• Decadence; hedonism gender and sex

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Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social · Jul 14

A lovely surprise in the post today.

It seems that ‘Cocaine, Literature and Culture’ is now available in paperback!

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Copies of Cocaine Literature and Culture 1876-1930, in a paper packing box. The cover features a woman with a short bob and fashionable 1920s dress with the word ‘cocaine’ above her head

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 13

You don’t have to make the not asking a man thing explicit if you’re not confident in doing so as giving the audience thinking time should encourage a wider range of questioners anyway 7/9

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