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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 16d

As the summer season departs at 1:19PM CT, there's still a chance to make a splash with issue 63.3 at the poolside.

Whether you're relaxing by the pool or going for a cool swim, 63.3 is the ideal companion. Secure your copy and cherish the last hours of summer! @ricehumanities @hopkinspress

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 20d

Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield on September 7, 1709, but, when England switched to the New Style calendar in 1752, Johnson took to celebrating his birthday on September 18. We're reading Nicholas Hudson's "Samuel Johnson, Urban Culture, and the Geography of Postfire London"(42.3, pp. 577-600).

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 25d

Join us in celebrating Defoe's potential birthday by reading Ian Newman's "Property, History, and Identity in Defoe's Captain Singleton" (50.3, pp. 565-83). Newman argues that unlike the self-fashioning Robinson Crusoe, Singleton represents an identity beyond possessive individualism (p. 566).

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Aug 25

📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, 63,3! 👉 shout out to @peterharringtonltd.bsky.social
who we interviewed for this issue! Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/issue/55435

new from SEL graphic of the summer issue with front and back blue cover images on summer red background

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Aug 12

Image citation: Hugh Thomson. Scene from Jane Austen's Persuasion: Anne complimented by her cousin William at Bath. 1897.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Aug 12

Belated Birthday Post 🎂

On August 9th, star of Jane Austen's Persuasion, turned 27 for the 217th time, and to celebrate, we're reading Emily Rohrbach's "Austen's Later Subjects" (44.4, pp. 737-52). For a probing look at some of Austen's most interesting work, visit SEL at Project MUSE!

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Aug 11

SEL 63.3 summer issue is coming! A cite-worthy quote from one of our contributors Juliana Beykirch on embodiment in Aphra Behn's II Rover:

“Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Aug 4

📖 Latest Book Review Live 📣

Taylin Nelson, a PhD candidate at Rice University, offers a thoughtful review of Kaori Nagai's "Imperial Beast Fables". Nelson finds Nagai's engagement in non-western perspectives accessible, compelling and interesting.

To read, click the link in our bio 🤓

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jul 30

Image citation: Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848. Emily Jane Brontë. oil on canvas, c.1833-4. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain). Visual Arts Legacy Collection. Artstor, JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/commu....

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jul 30

On Emily Brontë's 207th birthday, we're reading Kate Lawson's "Shirley, History after Wuthering Heights" (61.4 pp.623-39). arguing that Charlotte's novel Shirley acts as a spiritual and thematic successor to her sister's gothic masterpiece. #HBD

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jul 15

Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large.

📖 Book Reviews
🎙️ Interviews
📜 Archive Meditations
📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds

Link in bio!

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jul 3

Before we had the Constitution, Shakespeare gave us the Drama.

🎭 Revisit the Drama
📚 Read Paul Olson’s article
💭 Reflect critically about how government emerges…

SEL Spring 63.2 Issue is live now. Link in bio.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jun 27

In their article for SEL 63.2 Kirsten Sandrock describes King Lear’s encounter with the storm as “a spinning movement toward globality” symbolizing his fall as nonlinear and spatially disruptive (197). Read more about Atlantic weather and temporalities in King Lear 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jun 26

SEL 63.2 on the Willow Song 🎵

💡 "Rather than being straightforwardly somber, the Willow Song can also play to the audience as comic and parodic. Reading the Willow Song in this way completely reverses the standard reading of Othello act IV, scene iii..." buff.ly/ZT4osHN
‪@projectmuse.bsky.social‬

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jun 25

“The scene's erotic undertones, insofar as Edward places his head in the lap of another male intimate, yoke together queerness with the potentialities explored through his speech” (160).
👀 Read Emily King's article on Marlowe's play Edward II in our Spring 63.2 issue buff.ly/ZT4osHN

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jun 24

ICYMI 📣 Our Spring 2025 issue is live! Read Paul A. Olson's article about the construction of government in Shakespeare's Henry VI-Richard III plays in SEL 63.2 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN

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Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social · May 15

It was such a delight to be interviewed for SEL: STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE journal @sel1500to1900.bsky.social and to speak about my career, educational
background, and working @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/article/959893

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · May 14

📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, 63,2! Read about songs in early modern drama, queering history with Edward II, Shakespeare on government, and Atlantic weather in King Lear 👉 shout out to @freeburian.bsky.social who we interviewed for this issue! buff.ly/ZT4osHN

New SEL spring issue green graphic with cover and backcover screenshot

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Apr 15

on this US tax day, SEL is revisiting David Glimp's essay on sovereignty in Shakespeare's plays & taxes as "a site at which people might ... lay claim to forms of agency and capacities to intervene in the governance of the realm" (SEL 58.1, p. 27) Read at @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

tax day reading black and green graphic with screenshot of David Glimp's article "Sovereignty after Taxes in Shakespeare's History Plays" and a quotation from the article

tax day reading black and green graphic with an 1803 illustration of King Richard II c/o British Library

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Apr 2

Belated #HBD to Andrew Marvell born 31 March 1621 🥳 Marvell wrote against the abuse of power and in favor of religious dissent, and his poetry is remembered for its politics as much as metaphysics. Read more in SEL's latest issue on ProjectMUSE buff.ly/gSJtxdc @hopkinspress.bsky.social

happy birthday Marvell image with 1681 portrait of Marvell and screenshot of Margaret Summerfield's article on Marvell's Mower Poems in SEL issue 63,1 (Winter 2025)

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Mar 25

A most excellent time at RSA SAA in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 🪶 Looking for a sign to send that paper out for publication? This is it! SEL welcomes the opportunity to review your work: sel.rice.edu/submission-g...

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Mar 22

Congratulations to SAA Award Winners #Shax2025 including Gavin Hollis’s “Trifling with Catastrophe in King Lear,” runner up for innovative article award, published in SEL 62.1. You can read the article and the whole themed issue, "World, Globe, Planet," for free right now @projectmuse.bsky.social

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Mar 19

Happy RSA-SAA co-conference, to all who could join here in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 Looking forward to hearing great work in Renaissance, Early Modern, and Shakespeare studies 🪶 @saaupdates.bsky.social

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Mar 7

🎉 Int'l Women's Day is 8 March & SEL is celebrating scholarship on gender, women's history, and women's literature across 400 years. Recent issues feature feminist bibliography, portrayal of maternal bodies & female erotics, analysis of feminine duty & women's experiences @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Celebrating women's history month graphic featuring article on early modern feminist bibliography and Penelope Rich

screenshot and quotation from SEL article on portrayals of the maternal body and female erotic experience in Mary Wroth

screenshot and quotation from SEL article on feminine duty and ethics in Frances Sheridan's Sidney Bidulph novels

screenshot and quotation from SEL article on women's experience and the fallen woman archetype in Reynolds's novel Rosa Lambert

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Feb 28

#HBD to Sir John Tenniel born #OTD 1820 🥳 Political cartoonist and illustrator, Tenniel is best remembered for his illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Thomas analyzes his illustrations of the hybrid creatures in wonderland (SEL 48.4) @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

happy birthday sir john tenniel graphic featuring portrait of tenniel and color illustration of Alice, Gryphon, and Mock Turtle from "The Nursury Alice" (1890)

happy birthday sir john tenniel with balloon and screenshots of Deborah A. Thomas's SEL article with black and white Tenniel illustration of Alice, Grypon, and Mock Turtle from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

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