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Judge a book by its cover? Blanched Moore

Fascinating blog by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social disussing the choice of cover image for his edition of George Moore's Confessions in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series:
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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

For the new edition, edited by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social, see here:
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‘I am feminine, morbid, perverse’ Virginia Woolf judged that the Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933) was a more engaging memoirist than a writer of fiction. But although he produced several volumes of autobiography over the course...

'The youthful confessions of an Irish Decadent'
A nice piece in the TLS on George Moore's Confessions, inspired by the recent edition in our Jewelled Tortoise series 📗
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Read a review of the very first issue of Modern Language Review (formerly published by CUP), from 1905:

'the first number of a new quarterly periodical — or, as it is called, journal — devoted to the study of mediæval and modern literature and philology'

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'After the Great Theory Wars'

Barbara Burns speaks to Susan Bassnett, whose book 'Tales of Travellers and Translators: Essays on Comparative Literature' was published recently in Legenda’s Selected Essays series.

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Volume 33 of 'Austrian Studies' is now out!

'Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century'

Edited by Katya Krylova (@katyakrylova.bsky.social) and Dora Osborne.

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Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55395

Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies

In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue.

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Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies Our journal Portuguese Studies celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a special issue.

New blog post published on the @themhra.bsky.social website about the Fortieth Anniversary Issue of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and a recent celebration of this milestone at the @rebracweb.bsky.social conference held at King's College London.
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Announcing our new MHRA Member Benefits We have a new online membership platform, making it easier than ever to join, and many new benefits too.

We're delighted to announce a range of new benefits of being a member of the MHRA, beginning this year: see our blog post for more details. We'd love to have you as a member!
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The MHRA in the Oxford Magazine

Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝

Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.

Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.

Languages Research Database | University Council For Languages A free, searchable resource of concise, impact-focused research summaries in the field of languages, created specifically for policymakers.

Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers.
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
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'An Eternizement of the Savoursome'

Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

'A Better Bristol is a Better World'

Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.

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41.2 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out: our Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue 🎉🥳. It combines reflection pieces on the history of the journal & the field of Portuguese and Brazilian studies + seven research articles chosen via call for papers. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55394
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'Contributing'

Barbara Burns talks to Aggie Fanning, Co-Editor of the MHRA online PG/early-career journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'.

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'Struggling since 1859'

Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.

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George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez Modern Humanities Research Association - George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez

Newly published after eight long years of work! Thank you to the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social for its confidence in this demanding project, and to its publishing manager, Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social for his invaluable contribution to making this book a better one: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Very happy to see this volume finally out. Anyone opening it will immediately appreciate the enormous amount of work involved -- should be the definitive edition of these difficult but fascinating poems for many years to come.

📣Now published! A monumental new edition of George Chapman's early poems 'The Shadow of Night' and 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense'

Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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... And two more in Critical Texts, with covers still in preparation!

- 'Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, Tragedia de la destruyción de Constantinopla', edited by Aaron M. Kahn

- 'Zachary Coke, The Art of Logic Education, Freedom of Speech, and Liberty in the English Republic', edited by Emma Wilson

🔈🔈🔈 We're delighted to announce four forthcoming books!

Two in New Translations...

- 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953', translated by Malcolm Spencer.

- 'Berthe Morisot’s Journals. Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle', translated by Claire Moran.

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

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Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.

Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160

'Are Adjectives a Match for God?'

Barbara Burns talks to Gabriella Addivinola, whose book 'Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens

Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

The MHRA's Simon Rodway features in this article: one of the Editors of our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, with a book of his own coming out in the new year 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective

Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
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