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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 · 1d

The comments 🫀

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d

Auntie Zelda stung by jellyfish and shed her skin.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

What intriguing cover art!

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 2d

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

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.
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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 · 3d

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?
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Shortlist films

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

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Lars von Törne @larsvontoerne.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

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

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

American author & public intellectual #GoreVidal was #BOTD 100 years ago!
You can find a large array of Vidal's own texts as well as secondary literature on topics such as #AmericanPolitics , sexuality & gender or #AmericanHistory in his works.

#OTD #AmericanLiterature #GenderStudies #QueerWriters

2 high piles of books on & by Gore Vidal, pictured in SUB Göttingen library

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

"Kapugeekiyana’s story, The Original Is Not Here, follows Charitha, a Sri Lankan museum curator who receives backlash after staging an exhibit centring on a replica of Tārā, which is housed in the British Museum."

#WritersOfColour #EnglishLiterature

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6d

'Provocative’ story about #BritishMuseum statue wins #4thWritePrize

#PiyumiKapugeekiyana’s tale explores repatriation and cultural ownership through a replica of the goddess Tārā

Article has link to winning #shortstory...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Provocative’ story about British Museum statue wins 4thWrite prize

Piyumi Kapugeekiyana’s tale explores repatriation and cultural ownership through a replica of the goddess Tārā

www.theguardian.com

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6d

75th Anniversary ✒️ #OTD in #ComicBook #History 2 October 1950, #CharlesMSchultz's #CharlieBrown starring #Peanuts comic strip was first published within the pages of seven nationwide newspapers. #Snoopy would appear in the 4 Oct strip.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6d

“Even the smallest one can change the world.”

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 2 Oct 1902, #BeatrixPotter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" was first published as a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in London. Potter had privately published it in 1901.

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

I might be mistaken, but I think "Li'l Folks" predates the "Peanuts" strips by a few years - I found 1947, and it had several boys named Charlie Brown, but not the same as today's Chuck!
Afaik, 2 Oct 1950 is the beginning of "Peanuts" & Charlie Brown proper!

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6d

"You've always been the caretaker. I ought to know: I've always been here."

45th Anniversary 🪓 #OTD in #Film 2 Oct 1980, #StanleyKubrick's #horror masterpiece THE SHINING, adapted from the #StephenKing novel, starring #JackNicholson and #ShelleyDuvall, premiered in London.

a man in a turtleneck sweater is standing in front of a fireplace .

ALT: a man in a turtleneck sweater is standing in front of a fireplace .

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Charles Potomac @lasthometown.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Birthday Chuck!
#peanuts
#snoopy
#charliebrown
#CharlesMSchulz
#CharlesSchulz

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Stefan Koldehoff @skoldehoff.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Birthday, beloved gang! On October 2, 1950 the first #Peanuts comic strip debuted. @schulzmuseum.bsky.social

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

Can you believe that #Snoopy, #CharlieBrown & the other Peanuts are 75 years old #OTD ? The 1st ever #Peanuts strip was published 2 Oct, 1950!
You can find all volumes of the complete Peanuts comic strips as well as several secondary sources in our collection! 🥜

#ComicsStudies #AmericanStudies

A crochet Snoopy plushy sits on a large stone in front of the SUB Göttingen main library building, next to him is a stack of books on the Peanuts comic strips, including one very large, silver book saying "Peanuts Jubilee"

A crochet Snoopy plushie sits on the shelves in the stacks in front of the "Complete Peanuts" edition, while one of these books is held up, showing a comic strip of Charlie Brown being bowled over by a baseball

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 8d

"To me, the greatest pleasure of #writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."

✒ Remembering #TrumanCapote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, who was #BOTD 30 September 1924. #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 8d

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 30 September 1868, the first volume of #LouisaMayAlcott's "Little Women" was published by Roberts Brothers in 🇺🇸 It was an immediate critical and commercial success.

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