Not the London Book Fair: Richard Charkin’s Utterly Personal Publishing Visitor’s Guide to London 

Venture out from Olympia to enjoy the architecture, eat, drink, and check out some of the literary history around London.
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I am looking to hear from textual scholars who are editing the work of an author who could be considered ‘problematic’ within a 21C context for their views on gender, sexuality and race. My own case study is the British modernist writer Wyndham Lewis. What place can or should these views have in the scholarly edition that is traditionally focused on composition, publication and reception history?

#textualscholarship #scholarlyediting #authorship #identity #literature #literaryhistory

Das Arbeitsgespräch "Diskurse der Tyrannei in der Vormoderne. Antike – Mittelalter – Frühe Neuzeit" wird am 12. und 13. Februar 2026 an der RWTH Aachen stattfinden.

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/events/arbeitsgesprach-diskurse-der-tyrannei-in-der-vormoderne-antike-mittelalter-fruhe-neuzeit-aachen/ #avldigitalnews @germanistik @litstudies @italianstudies #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory

Джеймс Джойс.
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📝 Plot:
Set in 19th-century France, this romantic historical drama explores the intense and tumultuous relationship between novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. Torn between passion, jealousy, illness, and artistic ambition, their love affair unfolds across Paris and Venice, revealing the cost of genius, emotional dependence, and the struggle for independence in both love and art.

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The two novels of Orwell I haven't read are "A Clergyman's Daughter" and "Coming Up for Air".

The former incorporates Orwell's supposedly unsuccessful stab at modernist literary technique; I'm curious to see if it really is a failure.

I know little about the latter, but both the completist and the cultural historian within me want to polish it off anyway.

"Burmese Days" is excellent, and should be pressed into the hands of Niall Ferguson fans and other right wingers inclined to wax lyrical about the British empire.

At some point in the future, I'll post my thoughts on "1984'".

Image: 1943 National Union of Journalists card photo -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain.

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