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Felix Nauditt

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MA English Literature, focusing on 19th century - present, psychopathology in literature, Gothic, Modernism, Posthumanism

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Chadwick led, Gulson followed; but by 1838, both were fighting a losing battle against hostile interests. Although Chadwick nominally held office as Secretary to the Commissioners until 1847, the days of his power and prestige in this sphere were over, and this proposal, like so many others which he initiated in those nine years, failed to gain influential support. The Visiting Justices and the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy continued their work unhampered by the claims of Somerset House.

Chadwick led, Gulson followed; but by 1838, both were fighting a losing battle against hostile interests. Although Chadwick nominally held office as Secretary to the Commissioners until 1847, the days of his power and prestige in this sphere were over, and this proposal, like so many others which he initiated in those nine years, failed to gain influential support. The Visiting Justices and the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy continued their work unhampered by the claims of Somerset House.

I was born too late to see my aspirations come to fruition

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Action without Hope A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.

So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

04.06.2025 16:20 — 👍 131    🔁 41    💬 11    📌 5

To think that he is potentially rewarded with another young woman to ruin in the end - after everything Angel did, he shouldn't even trust *himself* to be Liza-Lu's guardian or whatever relationship he will claim they have.

19.11.2024 01:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This was Dracula’s fatal miscalculation, there were already plenty of bloodsuckers around

19.11.2024 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

His personal commitment to lowering rent prices for all remains unappreciated.

18.11.2024 23:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"

19.10.2024 16:55 — 👍 1976    🔁 881    💬 37    📌 112
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Berthe Morisot at the Marmottan stole the show for me, as much as I like Monet.

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