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Daniel Hack @danielhack.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Niche query for novel studies scholars: who was it who said that the basic plot of the Bildungsroman or the 19C novel could be boiled down to the sequence of two classic titles: Great Expectations, Lost Illusions? Moretti? Thanks!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In time for April Fool's Day, which may be apt, my article on Gothic fiction and #18thc hoaxing has appeared in Novel, in a banger of an issue on Belief in Fiction, co-ed by @danielhack.bsky.social & Rachel Ablow. Take a look at this exciting t.o.c. I'm grateful to be in such great company.

Contents:
Rachel Ablow/Introduction: Belief and Disbelief after Secularization
Daniel Hack/Why Always That Dorothea? Realism and the Rise of Meaning
Colin Jager/ The Suspension of Disbelief, Again
Timothy Bewes/ "Things Can Always Be otherwise": Believing (in) Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Deidre Lynch/Believing in Novels: Hoax, Hocus, and the Fictionality of the Gothic
Ian Duncan/ Excessive Belief: Transport and Immersion in Nineteenth-Century Historical Ficton
Ayelet Ben-Yishai/ "A Look She Cannot Read": Novelistic Epistemology between Genre and Narrative Mode in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song
Amy Hollywood: Henry James, Minny Temple, and the 'Demon of the Why, Whence, and Whither"

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Daniel Hack @danielhack.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm thrilled that this is now in the world: a special issue of NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, guest-edited by Rachel Ablow and me, on "Belief in Fiction." Wherein we are joined by a dream team of contributors: Colin Jager, Tim Bewes, Deidre Lynch, Ian Duncan, Ayelet Ben-Yishai, and Amy Hollywood.

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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Join us Mon 2/9 at Noon (ET) for a free seminar: "Spatiotemporal dynamics of geographic range in seasonally migratory birds" w/ Matthew Hack, PhD candidate, University of Michigan; 2024 AOS Student Research Grant winner. #AOSmembers americanornithology.org/calendar/spa... #AOS_SRGS

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

“But how full and lasting is this healing? We don’t know.” New at PB: Daniel Hack on the enigmas of J. L. Carr’s “A Month in the Country.”

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B-Sides: J. L. Carr’s “A Month in the Country” - Public Books

The impact of the novel’s silences and enigmas is amplified by the enigma that is Carr himself.

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Daniel Hack @danielhack.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

My university is encouraging me to use ChatGPT for my research, and I'm so glad I did. Otherwise I never would have known about @carolinelevine.bsky.social's 2004 article, "Victorian Plots and the Twentieth Century Novel: The Case of Kazuo Ishiguro"! Sounds fascinating! How could I have missed it?

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Daniel Hack @danielhack.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We find reassurance where we can. They say the English major is dying and no one reads anymore, but some one left a beat-up copy of MCTEAGUE on the "free books" shelf in my department this morning and it's already gone.

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