Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

Find them both in our catalogue:

"Scotland and China" opac.sub.uni-goettin...

"Scottish Literature of the South Seas" opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Holding the book "Scottisch Literature of the South Seas" amidst a meadow in bloom, with a brightly pink flower in the foreground

"Scottish Literature of the South Seas" is an essay collection ed. by Richard J. Hill & Allison E. Francis, examining the relationship & affinities between #ScottishWriters including & beyond #RLStevenson to the #Pacific


#ScottishLiterature #ScottishStudies #PacificStudies #PostcolonialStudies

Holding the book "Scotland and China" amidst a meadow in bloom

2 new books on Scottish Literature🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
The essay collection "Scotland and China", edited by Li Li & John Corbett, analyses the literary cross-currents betw Scotland & #China - how did #ScottishWriters construct China in their texts & how was translated Scottish lit received in China?

#AnneCarson

Looking for a poem *on* Shelley for his birthday (it was about free love vs its devastating consequences) and found this delightful thing instead

#callforpapers #religion #comics

📢#CfP: Special issue in @ijdisneystudies.bsky.social
“Mothers of the Magical Kingdom: Disney and Maternal Figures”

Deadline: 01 May 2026

More details and submission here: intellectbooks.com/ijds

#DisneyStudies #genderstudies #mediastudies #callforpapers #motherhood

Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: September 30, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: June 30, 2026 Around the late 1990s/early 2000s a revolution in television began to take place…

#callforpapers #peaktv #religion

We see an illustration of a blonde-haired woman in a blue swimming costume. She is sitting on a rock on the beach, looking out to sea.

A blue and white deckchair on the beach with a red and white striped tent in the background

A person looks out the window of a caravan beside a tent in a grassy field, with hills and fields in the background and camping items like a kettle and box nearby. The scene is illustrated in blue and red tones.

We're dreaming of sand between our toes and nights spent under canvas.

Images are details from the dustjackets of:
1. The English Air by D.E. Stevenson (1940.7.1679)
2. A Devon Summer by Joan White (1941.7.630)
3. The Compass Points North by M.E Atkinson (1938.8.680)

for some reason, the visuals of the hashtags look really funky on this one! But they still seem to work. Ah, the wonders of Bluesky never cease to amaze, lol

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear."

60th Anniversary 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 1 August 1965, #FrankHerbert's #scifi novel "Dune" was first published by Chilton Books in the 🇺🇸

Find the essay collection here in our online catalogue: opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Holding the essay collection "Reading Fictional Languages", edited by Noletto, Norledge & Stockwell, in front of a wall covered in hardly legible graffiti writing in orange and red

To get you in the mood for the Inklings #conference / Wetzlarer Tage der #Phantastik, here's a new addition to our collection: "Reading Fictional Languages", ed. by I.A.C. Noletto, J. Norledge & P. Stockwell, w 13 essays ranging from #ConLang|s to #LotR #Dickens & more

#LiteraryStudies #Linguistics

Are you as excited as we are about the upcoming #Inklings #symposium at @phanbibwz.bsky.social 12-14 Sept?
This year's topic is "Beyond Elvish: Constructed Languages in Fantastic Worlds", situated at the intersection of #LiteraryStudies & #Linguistics 🪄👽

phantastik.eu/events...

#conference

This thread by @nhm-london.bsky.social is full of fascinating things (do yourself a favour and look at the pygmy shrew!), but I especially enjoyed this haunted pendant #Gothic #GhostStories

My first association was Polly Pocket 💀🎀

Image of a shrouded figure with a skull on their knee and a skeletal hand over theirs. Text reads: The Australasian Horror Studies Network presents Apocalypse A Halloween Symposium Free | Online | October 26 2025 Abstracts due August 1 Send 200-250 words + short bio to australasian.horror.network@gmail.com

The CFP the annual Halloween Symposium of the Australasian Horror Studies Network closes on 1 August.

Potential topics include religious fervour, dystopia, planetary or human annihilation, cataclysms, AI takeovers, posthumanism, and ecological nightmares.

See below for more details!

#CfP #CallforPapers on #RLStevenson #RobertLouisStevenson #Ecocriticism

Head to our online library catalogue to get "Drawn to the Stacks" (hehe): opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#ComicsStudies #ComicStudies #AmericanStudies #PopularCulture

Holding the essay collection "Drawn to the Stacks" in a room of our library filled with bookshelves and a book cart. The background of the photo is made to look as if it was the cheap screen print of mid-century comicbooks

You love #GraphicNovels & #Libraries ? Then this essay collection, edited by Carrye Kay Syma, Robert G. Weiner & Donell Callender is for you! The 18 essays look at the depiction of #librarians & #archives in a variety of (mostly 🇺🇸) #comics incl. #Marvelcomics & #BTVS 's Giles

#ComicsStudies

My Beautiful Laundrette review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain with a larky Ealing air Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics

#MyBeautifulLaundrette #Film #Review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain

Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest ( #DanielDayLewis ) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Haha, great quote!!

90th Anniversary 📚 #OTD in #History 30 July 1935, Sir #AllenLane of the #PenguinPress revolutionised the #publishing industry by releasing new affordable paperbacks. A huge hit with booksellers and readers, the iconic tomes were originally colour-coded according to genre.

Will there be a catalogue for the exhibition?

What a beautiful edition! 🐸🐸 Frog and Toad are such icons. Give their stories a (re-)read this year if you're in need of some cozy wisdom and relaxation (and let's be real, who isn't!)

#FrogAndToad #ArnoldLobel #ChildrensBooks #InternationalFriendshipDay #QueerWriters

The #BookerPrize2025 longlist is out! Exciting times! Have you read any of these yet? Which one is your favourite?

Asking your friend/colleague/partner to repeat themselves for the 65th time today, because you can't stop thinking about what's going to be on the Booker Prize 2025 longlist tomorrow...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

So this is how I find out that Tom Lehrer died this past weekend?!

#TomLehrer #PopCulture

This might come in handy for scholars of #PoliticalScience as well as #PostColonialStudies or #Linguistics and #ReligiousStudies and many other fields where anonymisation is important