Michael H Whitworth

@ProfMHWhitworth
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Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, UK. #LitSci, #Modernism, #BookHistory, #VirginiaWoolf, 20s&30s poetry. Co-Founder, The BSLS. All posts in a personal capacity.
Michael H WhitworthFeb 15
Pleased to see that *Beyond Modernism* (Bloomsbury) is moving towards the printing press: I received some final author queries for my chapter today. My chapter concerns popular science writing and the unsteady and contested claims made about its literariness. Big thanks to Andrew and Katie for steering this ship on its long voyage.
Show threadMichael H WhitworthFeb 3
(And thank you Rob S. for letting me know about the impersonator.)
Michael H WhitworthFeb 3
Drawn back here because I was told about an impersonator account (the sincerest form of flattery), I should draw attention to A History of the Bloomsbury Group, ed. Derek Ryan, to which I’ve contributed a chapter on Bloomsbury and Science.
Michael H WhitworthAug 22, 2023
Michael H WhitworthAug 21, 2023

Mina Loy and C. Day Lewis might seem an unlikely pairing, but in ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and *From Feathers to Iron* they're both interested in origins, gestation, and uncontrollable cosmic forces.

I've written about them in "Wide Horizons", here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193803

#MinaLoy #CDayLewis #LitSci

Michael H WhitworthAug 21, 2023

Mina Loy and C. Day Lewis might seem an unlikely pairing, but in ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and *From Feathers to Iron* they're both interested in origins, gestation, and uncontrollable cosmic forces.

I've written about them in "Wide Horizons", here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193803

#MinaLoy #CDayLewis #LitSci

Michael H WhitworthAug 11, 2023

Congratulations to my former Oxford English Faculty doctoral student David Shackleton, whose monograph *British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time* is published today by OUP

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/british-modernism-and-the-anthropocene-9780192857743?cc=gb&lang=en&

British Modernism and the Anthropocene

British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth century was marked by environmental transformations that were so complex and happened on such great scales that they defied representation.

Michael H WhitworthAug 3, 2023
Show threadSheril KirshenbaumAug 2, 2023

Update: The family of Henrietta Lacks has reached a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, a #science & technology company that used & profited from cells taken without her consent in the 1950s.

The announcement came yesterday on what would have been Henrietta Lack’s 103th birthday. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1191283359/henrietta-lacks-descendants-settlement-stolen-cells /2

Michael H WhitworthJul 25, 2023
John BullJul 25, 2023

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology

Michael H WhitworthJul 25, 2023
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jul 24, 2023
In numerical terms, this must be one of the biggest corrections ever made by a newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/24/the-big-idea-why-the-laws-of-physics-will-never-explain-the-universe
The big idea: Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe

We should think of the cosmos as more like an animal than a machine

The Guardian
Michael H WhitworthJul 25, 2023
Robert Dale ParkerJul 21, 2023

Virginia Woolf's handwritten notes on The Voyage Out, her first novel.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-21/virginia-woolf-copy-of-the-voyage-out-rediscovered-at-sydney-uni/102629680?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

@litstudies #VirginiaWoolf #Writing #Reading #Novels

Virginia Woolf’s copy of debut novel The Voyage Out featuring handwritten notes rediscovered and digitised by University of Sydney

A rare personal copy of Woolf’s first novel with the author's handwritten revisions offers tantalising glimpses into the mind and process of one of the 20th century’s most significant writers. Now the public can access it online.

ABC News