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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 19d

THE GULLIVER TRILOGY

#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)

#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels

#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)

Book cover: Gulliver’s Travels, ed.
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Book cover: The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager

Book cover: Daniel Cook, Gulliver’s Afterlives

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 19d

Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...

Gulliver’s Afterlives

The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyag…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 30

“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”

@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition | National Library of Scotland

Explore the profound impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on literature and culture.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Aug 17

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Orwell's Animal Farm was first published #otd 80 years ago

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Aug 2

“And what I write I cast upon the stream, / To swim or sink - I have had at least my dream.”

- Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (Canto XIV)

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Jul 12

“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”

Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Jul 6

You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Jul 5

Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Jun 28

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words

Shoogly, skooshy, beamer and bummer are among 13 new entries added by editors at the OED.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Jun 21

quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · May 9

I’ll be spending the rest of this blissful morning in the National Library of Scotland, followed by my first ever trip to the Royal Society of Edinburgh this afternoon 🚆📚

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Apr 5

I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Apr 4

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William Wordsworth's stunning Lake District home is for sale – so you could own and live in a little piece of literary history

Rydal Mount and Gardens has previously been run as a successful business, but there's no reason you couldn't live in this exciting piece of literary history

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Apr 2

As Dundee is a city of creativity and design our Humanities team is launching a brand-new Taught Postgraduate course this September: Writing for the Creative Economies (MLitt, part time). For more information and to apply visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate....

Spread the word, mes amis!

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Apr 1

Right up my street, almost literally - sold out, alas…

Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Mar 23

Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Mar 17

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

Jonathan Swift
#StPatricksDay

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Mar 3

perthmuseum.co.uk/new-macbeth-...

New Macbeth exhibition to open in April

Macbeth exhibition set to open in April at Perth Museum.

perthmuseum.co.uk

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Mar 2

“Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life’, that we may live.”

Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Mar 1

Did you know that Gulliver has appeared in Doctor Who and Star Trek? As my book Gulliver's Afterlives reveals, the fantastical voyager has been busy for 300 years.

I'll be presenting a paper in the Sheffield Hallam/Bangor Early Modern Seminar on 11 March (online).

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Sheffield Hallam/Bangor Early Modern Seminar Series | School of Arts, Culture and Language | Bangor University

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Feb 25

Interested in Literary Studies? Read free issues of The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism and The Byron Journal via the LUP website: bit.ly/FREE-ISSUES-LUP
@lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social‬ @asecsoffice.bsky.social

An image of four stacked journal issues containing The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism, and The Byron journal on a beige background.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · Feb 16

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters

Helen Fielding, David Baddiel, Nicola Sturgeon and other cultural figures celebrate the great writer’s 250th birthday

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Feb 7

Barely a week to-go before the annual Romancing the Gothic charity teachathon!

15th February - it runs all day so people can join from any timezone for at least some of it

Sessions recorded so you don't miss out

THIRTEEN (13) amazing talks and workshops

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1141089402...

Goths for Breakfast

An online days of Gothic and horror classes and workshops to support the charity Magic Breakfast

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