Book Review: Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland 6 March 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York Published in the centennial anniversary year of Ulysses, John McCourt’s Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland (2022) is a compelling sy…

Next, @woganchris.bsky.social 's review of John McCourt's 'Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland' (Bloomsbury, 2022), an insight into the shifting response to Joyce's epic modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6397

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories", a 2024 essay collection I edited w/ Richard Barlow, is now available to pre-order in a much more affordable paperback edition from @edinburghup.bsky.social! (use code PAPER30 for a further 30%-off discount)
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Poster for the ECEN Inaugural Seminar: Dr. Jeremy Davies (Leeds), 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture' Thursday 26" February, 2026 Heslington Hall, University of York (H/G21) and Online 17:00-19:00 GMT Please jown us for the inaugural seminar of the ECEN, in which Dr. Jeremy Davies of the University of leeds will address us on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture? From 17:00 to 19:00 GMT, both here at Heslington Hall and over a Zoom link which will be provided nearer the time, Dr. Dayies will speak on the Georgic mode, the rise of the machine, and Romantic green onsciousness. We are incredibly excited to welcome a scholar as important to the field, and to our own work, as Dr. Davies, and hope that as many of you as possible will be able to jormus, and enjoy what promises to be a brilliant paper and a lively discussion! Visit us at: https://hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e

The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.

This looks really interesting and the website looks beautiful!

Book Review: Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories 9th September 2025 Christopher Wogan, University of York Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, ed. Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Published in 2024, the t…

✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨

Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!

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Wonderful time spent in May at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation :-)

Today's reading

Storm Éowyn: Gardens staff 'devastated' at loss of Edinburgh's tallest tree The 166 year-old Himalayan cedar was planted in Edinburgh during a visit by Queen Victoria's son, Albert.

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