📚 In “The Mother-Daughter Plot in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child,” Paula Martín-Salván examines how Morrison challenges representation of #motherhood through interweaving sociological views with a narratological lens, focusing on the interplay between class, gender and race. Read the article👇:

I’m shilling CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY hard because I’m so proud of it —specifically because it, like every close reading, is the product of a community and an offering to a community.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
and I collaborated with each other and also 22 brilliant contributors.

My book came out on Friday!

Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.

c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!

www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...

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

The the call for the ESSE Book Awards 2026 has been published.
👇 essenglish.org/book-awards/

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖

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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...

🖌️ In the recent article “Representations of Maternity and Diaspora in Shirin Neshat and Sevdaliza,” Keyona Fazli demonstrates how two Iranian diasporic artists depict motherhood as an promising lens or anchor for exploring the fluidity of memory, displacement and resistance. Read the entire piece👇:

📚In “Special Worlds: Pastoral Elegy in Stephen Sexton’s If All the World and Love Were Young,” Iain Twiddy explores how traditional pastoral conventions are challenged to foster mourning in Sexton’s ekphrastic sequence, focusing on allusions to past and present worlds. Check out the article👇:

A new publication, it is out now! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

📢 CFP open! The Poetics and Politics of Literary Assemblages in the Anglosphere. An International Conference 🌍
📅 University of Málaga, 18–20 May 2026
📝 Send title + 300-word abstract + bio note to [email protected] by 9 December 2025.

#CFP #LitAssemblage #RELY

Congratulations to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay whose book, Required Reading, was named the Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the @yalemacmillan.bsky.social!

Learn more about this fascinating book here: hubs.ly/Q03LqQ500

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Sex and Style by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

📚 In ““Novels consist of words”: Exploring Transcultural Depths, Translating The Sense of an Ending into Russian,” Elena Bollinger underscores the hidden meanings revealed in translating Julian Barnes’ award-winning novel, focusing on transcultural memory in its reception. Read the article👇:

📖 In “Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl,” Jingxuan Yi explores how Owenson redefined Anglo-centric colonial narratives in her epistolary novel, tracing paratextual elements as subversive tools. Check out the article👇:

My book is out a week today!

Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel...

Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr...

Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

📖 In “Lost and Found: Material Objects and Dislocation in Denise Levertov’s Tesserae,” Nora Kirkham examines how, in her fragmented memoir, Levertov illustrates memories and landscapes through excavating missing objects and histories of her nomadic identity. Read the #openaccess article here 👇:

This title offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction, exploring the visual details in women’s novels published between 1778 and 1815. Click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ycywhuht #AnthemPress #NineteenthCenturyStudies #LiteraryCriticism #GenderStudies #NarrativeTheory #NovelStudies #getyourcopy

Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Pleased to see that David Szalay‘s novel Flesh has now been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize! Read my interview with him about Flesh and his previous work here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....