Publishing today!

A profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide, drawing from the lives of poets, and his own experience, by @jtwelsch.bsky.social.

Available now from all good bookshops & online.

Head to our Events page (link in bio) to find a book launch near you. #booksky

The Time of the Angels: Platonic Elements in Iris Murdoch—Good for Nothing and Love for Nothing This article explores the interplay between philosophy and fiction in Iris Murdoch’s The Time of the Angels, arguing that the search for love is the animating force through which the Platonic Good ...

💡📖 In “The Time of the Angels: Platonic Elements in Iris Murdoch—Good for Nothing and Love for Nothing,” S. P. Lee draws attention to the dynamic interplay between philosophy and psychological realism in Murdoch’s writing as a contribution to post-war moral thought. Check out the entire article👇:

Dickens Day 2026 - ‘Dickens and Family’

The CFP for Dickens Day 2026 is live! We warmly invite proposals linked to this year’s theme of “Dickens and family” (both in his life and work). The deadline is 15 June, and the day itsef will be on Saturday 10 October at Senate House, London. All are welcome!
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific Cambridge Core - American Studies - Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific

New Cambridge Element:
Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific,
by Edlie Wong, out now!
Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
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Absolutely thrilled to share the programme for the study day that I am co-organising on the "Critical Age" in Victorian Popular Fiction. Registration link in the comments. All welcome @vpfa.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @cncsi.bsky.social

Centring Sociality: Communication, Community, and the Failure of Reform in William Godwin’s St. Leon (1799) Many readers have regarded William Godwin’s St. Leon: The Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799) as an expression of his newfound appreciation for domestic affection. Yet such readings tend to overlo...

📜 💬 In “Centring Sociality: Communication, Community, and the Failure of Reform in William Godwin’s St. Leon (1799),” Sung Jin Shin argues how Godwin highlights private and public relations to foster an understanding of the communal fabric of eighteenth-century society. Read the article👇:

Interdisciplinary panel ‘Narratives of the Future’ at the University of Edinburgh on 1st May 2026:

Event date: Friday 1 May
Time: 13:30 - 15:30
Location: IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW and online via Teams
👉 www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/narrat...

“Populism Is the British Disease”: The Political Metamorphosis in Ian McEwan’s The Cockroach In The Cockroach, Ian McEwan represents Brexit as a grotesque “political metamorphosis” orchestrated by cockroaches infiltrating the British government, allegorising ruling elites and the pathologi...

📚🪳 In “‘Populism Is the British Disease’: The Political Metamorphosis in Ian McEwan’s The Cockroach,” Chunyan Li & Bin Xu explore McEwan’s novella as a #BrexLit work that draws attention to configurations of historical agency, nationhood and power in light of political change. Read the article👇:

BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN!

We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson. From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought.

Three Roads Back by Robert Richardson is a powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought.

Now available in #paperback.

Explore a free preview here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation and Legacy An Online VPFA Study Day Co-organised by Dr Graziella Stringos and Dr Philippa St. George Keynote Speakers: Dr Jen Baker, and Dr Victoria MargreeFriday 17th – Saturday 18th April REGISTRATION…

Come and join the chatter on *The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation and Legacy*, a free Online Study Day by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Friday 17th – Saturday 18th April

Keynote Speakers: Dr Jen Baker, and Dr Victoria Margree
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Marilyn Chin and the Influence of African American Literature and Culture Chinese American poet Marilyn Chin has been the subject of extensive critical study during a long and illustrious career, but a previously underexplored topic is the strong influence of African Ame...

💡📚 In “Marilyn Chin and the Influence of African American Literature and Culture,” Lauri Scheyer and Juan Wang offer a transnational perspective on the impact of African American social activism, art and #feminism on the modernist aesthetics and agency of the Chinese-American poet. Read the piece👇:

Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference

The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July

More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

Three exciting new books in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge Elements series:

🎆 Editing an Early Modern Play

🎆 Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

🎆 Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph

More details: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

@roaringgirle.bsky.social

Complete George Eliot Letters (2026) · George Eliot Archive The George Eliot Archive is an extensive resource for anyone studying the Victorian author George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), one of the most highly acclaimed novelists in Western literatu...

The letters included in Gordon Haight's magisterial nine-volume edition of George Eliot's correspondence--almost 4,000 in all--are now freely searchable online, thanks to Dr. Beverley Park Rilett and her team at the GE Archive project. tinyurl.com/48hwzu7z #Victorian

Climate Fiction and Emotions: An Interview with Katerina Gibson Climate Fiction has recently begun addressing critical issues surrounding the mental impact of climate change and increasingly explores environmental impact, degradation, among other topics. Shifti...

📚🌱 In “Climate Fiction and Emotions: An Interview with Katerina Gibson,” G. S. Sankari and T. Asha Priya enter into dialogue with award-winning author Gibson to discuss the role of debates on #climate anxiety, grief and denial in her debut novel The Temperature (2024). Check out the interview👇:

Out Now! Examines six African American writers – Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ishmael Reed, Paule Marshall, Toni Cade Bambara and Ntozake Shange. Buy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5y98tzkb #AnthemPress @uh.edu #AfricanAmericanLiterature #BlackWriters #DecolonizingLiterature #BlackVoices #newreads

“A Damned Outrage”: Miasma and the Tragedy of Injustice in Cormac McCarthy’s The Gardener’s Son Cormac McCarthy’s The Gardener’s Son shows how miasma, or moral pollution, has seeped into the fabric of Graniteville society at every level: domestic, religious, educational, social, civil, and en...

🔍📖 In “‘A Damned Outrage’: Miasma and the Tragedy of Injustice in Cormac McCarthy’s The Gardener’s Son,” Russell M. Hillier shows how McCarthy illustrates moral pollution in Graniteville society, focusing on Greek tragedy, Arthurian legends, Shakespearean drama and Hebraic ritual. Read the article👇:

International Companion to Scottish Poetry A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rich diversity of Scotland’s poetry, from early medieval texts to contemporary writers.

INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO SCOTTISH POETRY

19 chapters cover Scottish #poetry from medieval to modern, & explore influences & interrelations between English, Gaelic, Latin, Old Norse & Scots verse

From all good bookshops & via @projectmuse.bsky.social
#WorldPoetryDay
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Character Networks and Affective Flows: A Genealogy of Algorithmic Dramaturgy in Shakespeare’s Theatre This article argues that Shakespeare's theatre anticipates the logics of algorithmic dramaturgy, staging networked relations and affective flows centuries before digital computation. While scholars...

🎭💡In “Character Networks and Affective Flows: A Genealogy of Algorithmic Dramaturgy in Shakespeare’s Theatre,” Ahmed Abdelkeir Abuelmagd Khaled examines how character networks and affective relations are highly intertwined in proto-algorithmic dramaturgies on the Early Modern stage. Read the piece👇:

Out now in paperback!

Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him?

'Shakespeare's borrowed feathers' by @freeburian.bsky.social is out now, available from all good bookshops & online.
#Shakespeare #booksky

Research Seminar: Dr Victoria Whitworth - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig This seminar will also be live-streamed. Register below and a Zoom link will be emailed to you on the day of the seminar.

The Book of Kells: Was it made in Easter Ross?
25 March @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social & online: free

Dr Victoria Whitworth challenges the idea that the Book of Kells was made on Iona, & makes a case for the Pictish monastery of Portmahomack
#medievalsky #bookhistory
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/seiminear-ra...

Now available! Johanna Winant's eagerly anticipated, LYRIC LOGIC: HOW MODERN AMERICAN POETRY REASONS. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/4e7vphwa @johannawinant.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Anglo-Irish Fairies, Pauperised Catholics: Postcolonial Dwellings in J.S. Le Fanu's “The Child that went with the Fairies” (1870) The appropriation of fairy tales as vindication tools for the cultural recovery of a nation is a well-attested phenomenon in postcolonial literatures (Innes, The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolon...

☘️📖 In “Anglo-Irish Fairies, Pauperised Catholics: Postcolonial Dwellings in J.S. Le Fanu's “The Child that went with the Fairies” (1870),” Richard Jorge explores how Le Fanu's adaptation of the changeling myth unveiled the resistance of Irish Catholics under British imperial rule. Read the piece👇:

Call for Papers. Redefining Borders in British Literature: Global and Local Identity Before and After Brexit. Host and dates: Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy. 29–30 October 2026. Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2026. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Deceptive, Productive and Unhomely Food in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter” This paper examines Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter” through the lens of food as a narrative and cultural agent. Moving beyond readings that reduce food to ethnic markers, it argues that Lahiri...

🍴📚 In “Deceptive, Productive and Unhomely Food in Jhumpa Lahiri’s A Temporary Matter,” Penglu Shi & Hui Pan demonstrate how representations of food hold narrative and cultural agency in reimagining cosmopolitanism and diasporic memories alongside themes of #migration or #gender. Read the article👇:

Manchester University Press - The dreadful name of Henry Hills The dreadful name of Henry Hills - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The dreadful name of Henry Hills by Michael Durrant

*Publishing March 2026*
The dreadful name of Henry Hills, The lives and afterlives of a C17th printer.

Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social brings the forgotten printer Henry Hills vividly back to life, exploring how his reputation, notoriety, and his legacy has evolved over time.

Thinking Through Shakespeare by David Womersley

How #Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions—about identity, politics, religion & right and wrong—explains his lasting power, popularity & relevance.

Thinking Through Shakespeare by David Womersley is out now!

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Literature #Hamnet

Call for Papers. Prosody at the crossroads of disciplinary pathways: Prosody and voice quality. Host and dates: Université Grenoble Alpes, France. 21-22 May 2026. Extended deadline for submissions: 31 March 2026. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Norse-derived Terms in Siege of Jerusalem: Dialectal Variation in the Nine Extant Manuscripts This article examines the diffusion and retention of Norse-derived vocabulary in the nine extant manuscripts of Siege of Jerusalem (SJ), a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem p...

📜🔍 In “Norse-derived Terms in Siege of Jerusalem: Dialectal Variation in the Nine Extant Manuscripts,” Marina Asián maps lexical and regional differences in the use of Norse-derived vocabulary and loanwords among scribes of a Middle English alliterative poem. Read the #openaccess article here👇: