📢New chapter: Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates on migration
I look at the rhetorical use of explicit references to pride & gratitude, shame & regret, fear & tolerance
Free to download: www.peterlang.com/document/147...
📢New chapter: Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates on migration
I look at the rhetorical use of explicit references to pride & gratitude, shame & regret, fear & tolerance
Free to download: www.peterlang.com/document/147...
🤓 New on our blog
Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.
Promotional graphic for a book. The LUP logo is placed in the top left corner. The book cover for The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is placed on the right of the image. White text reads 'Interrogating representations of the corpse, this collection offers new perspectives on death in Irish literature.' The background is taken from the book cover, and is a grey washed version of the drawing of a sparse tree.
📚 Recently published | The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is available now!
This is the first book to centre on the figure of the corpse in Irish literature, and it ranges from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Cover of The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Nick Hubble, Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor. One of 10 volumes in Bloomsbury's The Decades Series.
Cover of The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Nick Bentley, Alice Ferrebe & Nick Hubble. One of 10 volumes in Bloomsbury's The Decades Series.
Cover of The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Philip Tew, James Riley & Melanie Seddon. One of 10 volumes in Bloomsbury's The Decades Series.
Today is the publication day of the paperback editions of 3 volumes in the Decades series @bloomsburylit.bsky.social. These means that 9 of the 10 volumes are now in paperback, with only the recently published The 1920s still outstanding (and that will appear in due course). Further details below 1/
19.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 3🎭 📖 This special issue includes a poignant introduction by guest editors Paola Prieto López and Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez, focusing on creative expressions of resistance alongside cultures of solidarity in twenty-first-century literature and performance! Read the wonderful #freeaccess piece👇:
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📢 We are delighted to announce that our newest special issue "Narratives of Solidarity vs. Narratives of Exclusion in Twenty-first-century Fiction and Performance" has officially been published! 📚 This issue comprises promising articles on #solidarity, community and #affect. More details👇:
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This time next month this book will be out in the world. If your institution subscribes to Oxford Academic, you can already access the digital version! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#JaneAusten #Adaptation #19thC
@oupacademic.bsky.social @uv.es
New Emanation on our website from @jodielmarley.bsky.social about her new book, William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women blakesociety.org/william-blak...
14.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
A huge CONGRATS to the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social editors of 'The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature' for winning the BACLS edited collection prize. CHeck the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/many-worlds-...
13.02.2026 10:27 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year!
If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there!
Conference dates: 2nd-4th September
Submission deadline: 28th March
CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
🗣️ 💬 In “Metaphorical Traits of the Language of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Short-Term Diachronic Study,” Ljubica Leone presents a corpus-based investigation into the metaphorical dimension to the language used to discuss the COVIC-19 pandemic in parliamentary debates. Read the article👇:
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Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...
09.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
🎭 In “Cripping Solidarity in Contemporary Feminist Disability Theatre: Lovingly, Joyfully, Radically,” Verónica Rodríguez builds on #feminist disability discourses to examine how cripping solidarities are generated in Amy Trigg and A.C. Smith’s contemporary performances. Read the entire article👇:
06.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.
30.01.2026 12:19 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on on Saturday, February 7th, for our free virtual birthday conference! ✍️🏻📅 You can read about it on our blog, The Cricket: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...
Please register via Eventbrite to receive a zoom link the week of the conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere by Elleke Boehmer. A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.
In her new book Southern Imagining, @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social uses literary, scientific & cultural material to explore how we look at the world from the south.
Out now in the UK/Europe, & available in North America on Feb 10!
Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Literature
📚🌳 In “Apple Trees and Plastic Ducks: Gardens as Post-pastoral Landscapes in Contemporary British Fiction,” Silvia Rosivalova Baucekova explores how four renowned authors depict gardens as powerful spaces where the distinction between wilderness and society might be reimagined. Read the article👇:
29.01.2026 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover of the collection entitled "Gender-inclusive language: Findings from 14 languages and open research questions", edited by Falco Pfalzgraf.
💡Learn about the use of gender-inclusive language across 14 European languages in this new book edited by Falco Pfalzgraf: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111701608/html#overview
@lhekanaho.bsky.social @sofialampro.bsky.social @genderedform.bsky.social @michael-hornsby.bsky.social
Eret's book, Strange Intimacies: Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, examines the life-affirming and enchanting aspects of modernism with feminist, affect and new materialist theories.
Order from our website and enjoy 30% off with code NEW30!
📖 In “Spatiality, Fugitivity, and “Black Livingness” in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Tuire Valkeakari sheds new light on how Jacobs narrates discourses on spatiality and pre-fugitivity to draw special attention to solidarity and black livingness. Read the entire article👇:
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The CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference 2026 is now LIVE! The theme is Gender & Creativity. The conf will be held in Oxford, 8-10 Sept, abstracts due to me by 13 April. Full details on the GMS website (artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social) medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
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Call for Papers. 28th METU British Novelists International Conference: “Ali Smith and Her Work”. Host and dates: Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. 3-4 December 2026.
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2026. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...
📜 In “Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, and the Medieval Germanic Courtier Narrative,” Leonard Neidorf sheds new light on how #Beowulf and Nibelungenlied hold similar literary motifs as courtier narratives that experiment with aesthetic form and character development. Check out the entire article👇:
23.01.2026 09:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" showing a detail from an abstract painting by Nano Reid called "Makeshift Gate at Wildgoose Lodge" (1973)
Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Save the date for the next International Walter Scott Conference: 28-30 June 2027, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Keynotes by Philip Connell and Porscha Fermanis & a special session marking the anniversary of Ian Duncan’s 'Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh' @princetonupress.bsky.social.
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📜 In “Hieroglyphic Matter in Bacon’s New Atlantis,” Katrina L. Spadaro charts and draw attention to how hieroglyphs serve as simulacra and mimetic characters that mirror the natural world in Francis Bacon’s utopian writing. Read the entire article👇:
20.01.2026 10:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@ecocritickate.bsky.social's @uvapress.bsky.social book is out! 30% off paper: 10VABOOKS
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/
Just remember that today is the deadline for proposals for our May conference! So many great proposals already! 👏👏
@assemblagelit.bsky.social
@aedeaninfo.bsky.social
Cover for Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective
🚨 New Cambridge Element 🚨
"Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective" by @kpager1.bsky.social, Suzanne McClure, & @ladoche.bsky.social is out now and free to read for the next 2 weeks!
https://cup.org/4pIbCqn
#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦