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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
Holding the book "Nordic Terrors" by Robert W. Rix in a snowy landscape
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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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
A Bridgerton themed bookstack on adaptation, colourblind casting, Black Neo-Victoriana, politeness and class and the British royals, decorated on a wooden table in SUB library's main building with a blue ribbon and a black feather mask
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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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
Holding the book "New Zealand Medievalism", with snowy ground in the background
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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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
The book "Medievalism and Reception" on a wooden bench, with snowy ground and trees in the background
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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"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
The book "The United States of Medievalism" on a wooden bench, with snowy ground and trees in the background
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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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
The book "Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism" on a wooden bench, with snowy ground and trees in the background
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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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
Holding the book "Cross of Snow - A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" in front of an old cross gravestone in the snow at a cemetery
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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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
Stacks of books on and by Agatha Christie as well as DVDs of the "Poirot" TV series with David Suchet and the 2015 BBC miniserie of "And then there were none" on a comfy vintage chair with a floral pattern
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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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
Holding the book "The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature" by Kaja Franck in front of snowy ground, imprinted with foot and paw prints
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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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
Taking the book "The Naming Song" down from bookshelves filled with new books, each one sporting a yellow paper slip used to give valuable information to the librarians cataloguing the books
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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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
Holding the book "The New Woman & Technologies of Speed in Fin-de-Siècle Literature" by Eva Chen in front of several bicycles parked in bike stands, the closest one sporting a colourful handmade, knitted sleeve in several colours
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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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
Holding the book "Elizabethan Occult Poetics" in front of a mossy tombstone. Another tombstone with a stone cross is visible in the background
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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
The book "The Lady and the Beast: The Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris & Aleister Crowley" on an engraved tombstone overgrown with moss, next to a yellow-green glass orb paperweight
December 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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... 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
Holding the book "Oz behind the Iron Curtain" by Erika Haber in front of a Christmas tree decorated with white and silver ornaments
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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
Holding the book "Queer Oz" by Tison Pugh in front of a Christmas tree decorated with white and silver ornaments
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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
Holding the book "Little Women at 150" in front of a christmas tree decorated with a large silver snowflake ornament
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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#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
Holding the book "Animating the Victorians - Disney's Literary History" in front of a christmas tree decorated with silver ornaments
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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#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
Holding the book "The Literary Gift in Early America" by David Faflik in front of a large Christmas tree, decorated with silver-white ornaments
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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"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
Holding the book "Seekers of Wonder" by Elena Emma Sottilotta in front of a wall overgrown with ivy
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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
The book "The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts" on a gravestone, in front of a gnarly tree in sunny winter weather
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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
The book "The Afterlives of Frankenstein - Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings" on a mossy stone in a graveyard, with several historic tombstones in the background
December 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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
A table with toile do juoy tablecloth, several stacks of books by and on Jane Austen and her works, decorated with a pink ribbon, saucers with biscuits and chocolates and a porcelain cup of tea. The background shows a green meadow and a large building, a bit in the style of a Georgian manor house, as well as a tree and very blue sky.
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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
A table with toile do juoy tablecloth, several stacks of books by and on Jane Austen and her works, decorated with a pink ribbon, saucers with biscuits and chocolates and a porcelain cup of tea
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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"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
Holding the book "Mau Moko - the world of Maori tattoo" by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku next to a yellow rose A glimpse into the book "Mau Moko - the world of Maori tattoo" by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku next to a yellow rose, showing two pages with Maori women with moko an historical illustration depicting wearers of moko, c 1850, by Joseph Jenner Merrett
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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 ☁️🌈
A stack of books on Critical Whiteness Studies in front of a window looking to a purple and lilac nightsky with pink clouds
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM