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@jamesgrande.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in 18thC Literature and Culture at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee Keats-Shelley House

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Cover of Articulate Sounds. Background is an illustration by William Blake from "Europe: A Prophecy". In the top third, white text on a blue background reads "A British Academy Monograph. Articulate Sounds: Music, Dissent, and Literary Culture, 1789-1840. James Grande". British Academy letter mark in white in the bottom left corner.

Cover of Articulate Sounds. Background is an illustration by William Blake from "Europe: A Prophecy". In the top third, white text on a blue background reads "A British Academy Monograph. Articulate Sounds: Music, Dissent, and Literary Culture, 1789-1840. James Grande". British Academy letter mark in white in the bottom left corner.

Articulate Sounds by James Grande (@jamesgrande.bsky.social) is now available Open Access at bit.ly/4qQ8vhz.

This British Academy Monograph reveals the deeply ambivalent relationship between music, religious dissent, and literary Romanticism.

30.01.2026 12:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bruce Springsteen and What Protest Songs Sound Like to Soldiers What the rock iconโ€™s new song about Minneapolis asks of us.

"For my fellow soldiers and me, [anti-war protest] songs didnโ€™t weaken our sense of duty; if anything, they sharpened it. We were being asked to do what many Americans didnโ€™t want to do....[T]he music made clear that service and conscience were not opposites."
www.thebulwark.com/p/bruce-spri...

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๐Ÿ“š Why does Jane Austen still matter?

At an event hosted by @kingsartshums.bsky.social, novelist Tessa Hadley joined actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai to explore why Austen was a revolutionary writer for her time & why she remains relevant to readers today.

๐Ÿ”—โžก๏ธ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/storyte...

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Extracts from Harry Clarke's stained glass "The Eve of St Agnes" - commissioned in 1923 by Harold Jacob for his fatherโ€™s house in Ailesbury Road, Dublin. Clarke took his inspiration from John Keatsโ€™s poem of the same name.
Hugh Lane Gallery
Harry Clarke 17 March 1889 โ€“ 6 January 1931)
#SpรฉirGhorm

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Cover of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" showing a detail from an abstract painting by Nano Reid called "Makeshift Gate at Wildgoose Lodge" (1973)

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 โ—We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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The Book Unbound Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Book Unbound

OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

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Out today! Thanks to everyone who has inspired and supported me over the 12 years Iโ€™ve been researching and writing this book. Published open access by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social so the ebook can be downloaded for free www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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New year, new issue of the Keats-Shelley Review! Articles on Mary Shelley and The Liberal, Percy Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener, Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, update from Rome and poems and essays from Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics prizes
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c...

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Happy New Year friends old and new on here! Already seems nicer and saner than the other place.

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