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Barbara Peabody’s The Screaming Room, medical humanities and genres of care... new article by Max Casey 🙌 open access!! 🙌 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jamie L. Bronstein's The Happiness of the British Working Class, reviewed by Nathan TeBokkel #laborhistory #eighteenthcentury #happiness #brtishhistory tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@PenguinUKBooks going off script for us and trading prose for poetry: chbooks.com/Books/9/3-Summ…

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"How do survivors of human rights violations and trauma use a combination of online and offline writing spaces, wide distribution, and immediacy to create a body of work that leads to empathy and activism?" @ronakaufman on @AnaBMartinezG's new book: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

CFP: Victorian Review Special Issue, “Victorian Energies” (Proposal Deadline: 9/1/24) bit.ly/4fJOZhi

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Prose Studies would love to find a reviewer for this book! Please reach out to Book Reviews Editor Carmen Faye Mathes tandfonline.com/action/journal…

We're delighted to share the news that the transcription phase of @davynotebooks, which has lasted almost three years, is now finished! 🥳 Since 2021, we've transcribed over 10,500 pages. A huge thank you to everyone who's contributed! Read more here: zooniverse.org/projects/humph…

New Book Review! Carolyn Williams reads Simon Reader's NOTEWORK: VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND NONLINEAR STYLE tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Omnibus reviewer Suvir Kaul's "Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century," explores recent scholarly work treating literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. Read: buff.ly/3PwRAjD.

Want to know more about archival autofiction? Read this chapter by me @alterAlison & @ElinIvansson in the newly published Routledge Companion to Literary Media edited by @AstridEnsslin, Julia Round & @onlinereaders1!

"How much is too much information? And how should you share it?" Kandice Sharren (@usask) reviews Lindsey Eckert's THE LIMITS OF FAMILIARITY for Prose Studies: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Call for Chapter Contributors A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the #19C (1800-1900) (volume 5 of A Cultural History of Trans Lives, under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing, expected 2027. General Editors: Blake Gutt, Greta LaFleur, Emily Skidmore) docs.google.com/document/d/1vS…

A painting @RareUVA depicts a young man gazing at the viewer. He has full lips, a long, straight nose, and large eyes. Who is he? @UVA professor @Andrew_Stauffer believes he's Percy Shelley, and an exhibition in Special Collections makes the case: library.virginia.edu/news/2023/will…

@JenniferAAshby "The publication history of Brodkey’s novel is so labyrinthian that it is at times difficult to know what’s fact and what’s apocryphal..." Jeff Noh on paperclips and drafts on paper: harvardlibrarybulletin.org/harold-brodkey…

Literature scholars (or anyone interested) - what criticism would you recommend that grapples with textual multiplicity in the sense of drafts, revisions, alternate versions, & the theoretical & practical issues that arise from this?

"How much information is too much information? And how should you share it? These are two crucial questions asked in relation to Romantic-era print culture by Lindsey Eckert’s The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers" @BucknellUPress

📢 new book review!! Kandice Sharren reviews Lindsey Eckert's _The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers_ 📢 doi.org/10.1080/014403…