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New book alert! 🚨
How did #EnglishLiterature writers of the 18th & 19th c depict Nordic traditions such as #folklore or pagan religion in their #GothicLiterature ? Find out in "Nordic Terrors" by Robert W. Rix - now in our collection: s.gwdg.de/5xgTYQ

#Gothic #LiteraryStudies #Scandinavia
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Dearest Gentle Readers, it has come to this author's attention that a new season is upon us. It is that scandalous #Bridgerton family again! We are consulting our collection on them - for knowledge, dear reader, is power - and it looks rather good in one's hands 🪶📖

#BridgertonSeason4 @netflix.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Finally, book 4 in our #Medievalism set is this edited collection by Anna Czarnowus & Janet M. Wilson which gives a #PostcolonialStudies & #MaoriStudies perspective on how the #MiddleAges were re-interpreted in #Aotearoa #NewZealand - incl the #LOTR films

#NewZealandStudies #CulturalStudies
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Uniting for the first time the concepts of #Medievalism & #ReceptionStudies this collection edited by Dr Ellie Crookes & Ika Willis includes topics as diverse as #StarWars #RobinHoos & #Chaucer & #Victorian perspectives on #AnneBoleyn & the crusades & more
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"The United States of Medievalism" is a #CulturalStudies essay collection edited by Tison Pugh & Susan Aronstein traces the (visual) influence of the European #MiddleAges on today's USA - in #themeparks #gardens #architecture - on highways, in Las Vegas & during Mardi Gras

#AmericanStudies
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Welcoming 4 new books on #Medievalism to our collection!
Helen Dell's "Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism" examines the surge of music at the core of an imagined medieval & the #nostalgia for this invented past, esp in #FantasyLiterature such as #Tolkien 's #LOTR

#CulturalStudies
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Nicholas A. Basbanes's "Cross of Snow" is the 1st major literary #biography on #AmericanPoet & translator #HenryWadsworthLongfellow in 50 years & traces the tragedies & achievements of his life, w new material & a fresh look at #Longfellow 's 2nd wife Fanny

#AmericanLiterature #Poetry #biographies
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie!
What are your favourite Christie detectives or Christie books? 🥸👵 etc... Do you have any recommendations for intriguing secondary literature on her works? Leave a clue, uhm, reply, and let us know! 🗡️

#AgathaChristie #DOTD #OTD
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Awhooo!! 🐺
"The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature" is a new 2025 #LiteraryStudies publication by Kaja Franck on #werewolves in works as wild & diverse as #Dracula, #folklore, natural histories, #YALiterature & more!🐾

#Ecocriticism #Gothic #AmericanLiterature #EnglishLiterature
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
2026 has started and our shelves are already flowing over with new additions to our collection! 🎆
This one caught my eye: "The Naming Song" by @jedediahberry.bsky.social is a genre-bending #fantasy adventure full of monsters, ghosts, dreams & the power of language & imagination

#AmericanLiterature
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Happy #NewYear 2026!
We are entering the new year at high speed, with this new study by Eva Chen on the #NewWoman & technologies of speed (as cyclist & typist) in #FindeSiècle #EnglishLiterature 🚴‍♀️💨💨💨

#VictorianLiterature #HappyNewYear #LiteraryStudies #LateVictorianism #VictorianStudies
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Or do you prefer your #Occultism a tad older? How about this study on "Elizabethan Occult Poetics" by @renaissancerach.bsky.social - delineating how 16th c poets incorporated discourses of the #occult into their works 📜🪶

#ElizabethanLiterature #EnglishLiterature #Renaissance #EarlyModern #Poetry
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's #NewYearsEve - the last night of the old year 🔮
Feeling esoteric tonight? Deja Whitehouse's study "The Lady and the Beast" explores the partnership of #ThothTarot creators #FriedaHarris & #AleisterCrowley - key figures of Western #esotericism

#Tarot #GoldenDawn #findesiècle #VictorianCulture
December 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
... or discover the Soviet, #ColdWar -era version of Oz: "The Wizard of the Emerald City", by Aleksandr Volkov, in Erika Haber's study "Oz behind the Iron Curtain" 💚🕶️

#TheWizardOfOz #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature #ChildrensLiterature #LFrankBaum
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Off to see the wizard... 2 new books on The Wizard of Oz in our collection! 📗📗
Explore queer readings of #LFrankBaum 's works with Tison Pugh's "Queer Oz" - not only for "friends of Dorothy"! 💚🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#childrensliterature #AmericanLiterature #QueerStudies #TransStudies #LiteraryStudies
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
2) On the other side of the pond, #LouisaMayAlcott 's #LittleWomen is a classic of #AmericanLiterature & #childrensliterature - popular all year round, but especially at #Christmas
This essay collection, ed. by Daniel Shealy revisits the novel in 8 new essays, incl a look at #AustralianLiterature
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#Christmas is a time of tradition & #nostalgia for many. Embrace it with these 2 new studies on beloved #childrensclassics
1) Patrick C. Fleming's "Animating the Victorians", tracing the #GoldenAge #childrensliterature texts that inspired #WaltDisney & Co

#Disney #VictorianLiterature #Adaptations
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#MerryChristmas 🎁
Will there be any books under your tree this year?
If so, why not explore the tradition of "The Literary Gift in Early America" with David Faflik's interdisciplinary study on gifting books, #giftbooks & beyond!

opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#AmericanStudies #AmericanLiterature
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"Seekers of Wonder" by @elenasottilotta.bsky.social pioneers the comparison of women's roles in Italian & #IrishFolklore & #FairyTales 1870-1920 collected / written by #WomenWriters Laura Gonzenbach, Grazia Deledda #JaneWilde & #AugustaGregory

#IrishLiterature #IrishStudies #Folklore
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
According to British #folklore ghost activities are heightened at #wintersolstice & #Christmas 👻

This new book in our collection by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time!

#WelshCulture #ghosts
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
If you're intrigued by Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein then check out this essay collection, edited by Robert I. Lublin & Elizabeth A. Fay on the afterlives of #MaryShelley 's creation in film, #PopularCulture & other #adaptations

#AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies
December 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hit our catalogue for large selection of primary by & secondary literature on Austen, rewritings & other adaptations of her works - or come visit us in Göttingen and admire our Austen-tatious campus architecture (pictured)😉!

#JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten #AdaptationStudies #EnglishLiterature
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Happy Birthday, #JaneAusten !! 🎂🎈
She was born exactly 250 years ago #OTD
"It is a truth universally acknowledged" that her combination of an enthralling romance plot with uniquely funny characters & social criticism remains timeless. 💌

#JaneAusten250 #EnglishLiterature #BOTD
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Mau Moko - the world of Maori tattoo" by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku et al., the reprint of the 2007 work on #tattoos as a traditional practice among #Maori is gracing our library with its lavish illustrations & explanatory texts - contemporary & historical documents of wearers of #moko

#MaoriStudies
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Who else is unimpressed with #CloudDancer - the #PantoneColoroftheYear #Pantone2026 ?!
We offer you instead: lots & lots of books to learn about #CriticalWhiteness & #CriticalRaceTheory from our collection!

P.S.: we got more colourful clouds than just plain, old, boring white, too! See pic ☁️🌈
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM