Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture
"Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays
The #CfP #CallforPapers for a #conference by DACH Victorianists on Victorian Jewish Life (in England) has been extended till July 14
more info: https://dachvictorianists.blogspot.com/p/victorian-jewish-life-heidelberg.html
#VictorianCulture #EnglishHistory #JewishHistory #JewishCulture
maybe interesting for @JuedStudien
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Book # 3 again looks at albums & #MaterialCulture of writing in #VictorianLiterature:
Deborah Lutz's book "Victorian Paper Art and Craft" paper art by the #Brontës, #ElizabethBrowning, #JaneAusten & #GeorgeEliot
Book # 2 of our thematic week:
Jillian M. Hess's study "How #Romantics and #Victorians Organized Information" examines #commonplace books, scrapbooks & albums as mediums of organizing knowledge & people, too!
#VictorianCulture #Romanticism #CulturalStudies #MaterialCulture
"Rites of Passage" by Judith Flanders has arrived at our library - providing a deeply researched analysis of the weird & wonderful mourning customs, beliefs around death and dying & burial rites of #VictorianCulture.
Jennifer deVere Brody's 1998 study Impossible Purities examines #Blackness, Femininity & #VictorianCulture in the context of the contrast of Black & white, American & English characters in 19th c fiction
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=244457697
As #syphilis is currently trending in online debates, here's an in-depth read on the depiction of the disease in #VictorianLiterature & #VictorianCulture!
Monika Pietrzak-Franger's study can be found here & ordered via interlibrary loan:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=885277287
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