Daniel Cook

Gulliver’s Travels at 300. The Global Afterlives of a Bestseller in Print, Transmedial Adaptations, and Material Cultures (Seventh ILLUSTR4TIO International Symposium, London) Plenary Lecture: Professor Daniel Cook (University of Dundee) Artist’s Talk: Martin Rowson (in conversation with Brigitte Friant-Kessler) Venue: St. Bride Library (London, U.K.) Dates: 23–25 September...

I’m looking forward to delivering the plenary lecture at this multidisciplinary conference, which marks the tercentenary of the first publication of the world’s greatest prose satire, in 2026:
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Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market…

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Out soon from Bloomsbury
#FrankensteinRetold #Frankenstein

Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!

As It Was Told to Me Introduction by Daniel Cook By: Association for Scottish Literature, 2021 Published in: PDF, ePUB and Mobi Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists…

Read Scott’s “The Two Drovers” in this free ebook, AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME: Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social – featuring

🪞 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
🐮🗡️ The Two Drovers
🐒🔥😈 Wandering Willie’s Tale

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As It Was Told to Me Introduction by Daniel Cook By: Association for Scottish Literature, 2021 Published in: PDF, ePUB and Mobi Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists…

You can read “Wandering Willie’s Tale”, along with two other short stories by Walter Scott – “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror” & “The Two Drovers” – in our free ebook AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social
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Book cover: Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Daniel Cook

Book cover: The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager

Book cover: Daniel Cook, Gulliver’s Afterlives

THE GULLIVER TRILOGY

#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)

#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels

#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)

Gulliver’s Afterlives The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyag…

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Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition | National Library of Scotland Explore the profound impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on literature and culture.

“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”

@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Orwell's Animal Farm was first published #otd 80 years ago

“And what I write I cast upon the stream, / To swim or sink - I have had at least my dream.”

- Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (Canto XIV)

“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”

Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:

You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?

Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.

Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words Shoogly, skooshy, beamer and bummer are among 13 new entries added by editors at the OED.

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quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

I’ll be spending the rest of this blissful morning in the National Library of Scotland, followed by my first ever trip to the Royal Society of Edinburgh this afternoon 🚆📚

I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.

William Wordsworth's stunning Lake District home is for sale – so you could own and live in a little piece of literary history Rydal Mount and Gardens has previously been run as a successful business, but there's no reason you couldn't live in this exciting piece of literary history

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As Dundee is a city of creativity and design our Humanities team is launching a brand-new Taught Postgraduate course this September: Writing for the Creative Economies (MLitt, part time). For more information and to apply visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate....

Spread the word, mes amis!

Right up my street, almost literally - sold out, alas…

Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

Jonathan Swift
#StPatricksDay

New Macbeth exhibition to open in April Macbeth exhibition set to open in April at Perth Museum.

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“Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life’, that we may live.”

Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)

Did you know that Gulliver has appeared in Doctor Who and Star Trek? As my book Gulliver's Afterlives reveals, the fantastical voyager has been busy for 300 years.

I'll be presenting a paper in the Sheffield Hallam/Bangor Early Modern Seminar on 11 March (online).

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Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters Helen Fielding, David Baddiel, Nicola Sturgeon and other cultural figures celebrate the great writer’s 250th birthday

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