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
"Re-Reading the Age of Innovation", edited by Louisa Kane, collects 14 essays on the subject of newness: new inventions, new forms in #VictorianLiterature & #Modernism - 1830–1950
Authors discussed incl #Dickens #Conrad #Hardy #Woolf #CharlotteMew #ElíasMar & #WalterFrancesWhite
"Writing the Brain" by Stefan Schöberlein looks at how C19 literature in Britain & the US incorporated discourses from the emerging neuroscience. Authors discussed incl #GeorgeCombe #CharlesDickens #EmilyDickinson #PlinyEarle #BenjaminRush & #AlfredTennyson
"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
4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press
The book "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detectives" by Sara Lodge contrasts the adventurous fictional female detectives of #VictorianLiterature with their real-life, historical counterparts in GB & USA
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How was Christmas celebrated in the #VictorianEra and how did #Dickens influence the holiday customs of his time?
Find out in "Dickens' Christmas" by Simon Callow & "The Man Who Invented Christmas" by Les Standiford!
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2 new volumes of #Dickensiana in our library: "Dickensland" by @victorianlondon will take you on a trip to #CharlesDickens's #VictorianLondon - the real & the fake, shaped by #LiteraryTourism & fandom
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The final day of our thematic week takes us to the movies: "The Story of #VictorianFilm" by Bryony Dixon & the British Film Institute is a time-machine trip to the birth of film & a field-guide to film genres of the #VictorianAge
We move to book # 4 in our thematic series & to mass-media #PrintCulture: the essay collection ed. by Paul Raphael Rooney & Anna Gasperini on media & print culture consumption in 19th c Britain & reader motivations
#VictorianStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #MediaStudies
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