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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My essay "What Should a Novel Say?" is out in the new issue of Novel. I'd love to hear from readers—what do you think? Thanks to audiences at Vanderbilt and Cornell who heard earlier versions and helped me to fine-tune! read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...

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What Should a Novel Say?

Abstract. This essay poses a question that is at once obvious and philosophically complex: What should a novel say? Taking Virginia Woolf's reflections on mid‐Victorian realism as its point of departu...

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Calling all novel people! With my amazing colleague Thom Dancer, I am co-organizing an ACLA 2026 seminar called "The Craft of Fiction." Link below. Please consider submitting a proposal. www.acla.org/seminar/6892...

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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The ICCIT is hiring! Our faculty is inviting applications for an Associate or Full Professor position in Organizational Studies, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

A stack of several purple-and-yellow copies of Charles Dickens's GREAT EXPECTATIONS, edited by Daniel Wright, Norton Library edition

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Come be a postdoc @uoftmississauga.bsky.social! If you're in the field of novel studies, or literature and philosophy, or Victorian studies, and this opportunity interests you, please be in touch with me directly about a potential application. www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...

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UTM Postdoctoral Fellowship Award | Research and Innovation

** Updated: April 2025 ** Program Purpose:Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDFs) are an important post-PhD training opportunity, affording recent graduates an opportunity to establish an independent research...

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A beautiful and generous review from Talia Schaffer that puts THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL into conversation with Adela Pinch's THE LOCATION OF EXPERIENCE. (And stay tuned for my own review of Pinch's incredible book, coming soon in MLQ!) muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Project MUSE - <i>The Grounds of the Novel</i> by Daniel Wright, and: <i>The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living</i> by Adela Pinch (review)

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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...

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Writing on Fire - Broadview Press

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Congratulations, can't wait to read!!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

3. I go to great pains in the introduction to say that I don't see the novel as some kind of edenic "refuge" for marginalized forms of being — although I do claim that in the hands of some authors it can serve to articulate more expansive ontologies by using the resources of fiction.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

2. Parker focuses on a single moment where I conflate novel and epic in Lukács (in a moment where I too quickly rearticulate an earlier point) rather than looking at the original discussion of "paths of adequation" where I clearly indicate that Lukács is talking there about ancient epic.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A few key points to rebut: 1. I do not argue for a "logic of segregation" whereby queer, trans, and/or racialized people have a merely fictional existence. That is absurd! The point is to think about how reality (embodiment, lived experience) and fiction (social construction) overlap.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I have dutifully shared several positive reviews of The Grounds of the Novel. This one is extremely un-positive (backhanded compliment about "ambition" notwithstanding), but I will share it anyway on the principle that all publicity is good publicity?

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hi, you seem to have tagged the wrong person!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Came here to say this! For whatever reason that description of the Santa Ana winds has stuck with me for decades!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Discount alert! THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is part of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social Virtual Exhibit for MLA and you can get it for 30% off with code S25MLA between Jan 9 and Feb 12. www.sup.org/books/litera... And check out the full exhibit while you're at it! www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...

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The Grounds of the Novel | Stanford University Press

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon...

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Kate Marshall @katemarshall.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The first season of the little known but pretty interesting horror anthology series Channel Zero!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

My edition of Great Expectations for the Norton Library series now has a webpage, a delightfully purple cover, and a projected publication date of July 1, 2025. Think about it for your Fall 2025 syllabus needs. (Or just because it's a pretty colour!) wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Great Expectations (The Norton Library)

Part of the Norton Library series, Great Expectations (The Norton Library), Charles Dickens, Daniel Wright, 9781324046721

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143

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Tenure-Track Professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature

The Department of English seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track professor will be responsibl...

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Oh, and a plug for Alice Meynell’s amazing essay “The Rhythm of Life,” and Amy Levy’s incredible dramatic monologue “Xantippe”

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Schreiner’s “Woman and Labour” would also be great

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

So much fun to see THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL put into surprising and illuminating conversation with @annakornbluh.bsky.social's IMMEDIACY in service of some big thinking about The Function of Theory at the Present Time. www.publicbooks.org/whats-a-theo...

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What’s a Theory to Do?

Given the scope of the crisis before us, we will need theory of all stripes to find our way forward.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

I’m so honoured to be read with such generosity by the brilliant Deidre Lynch.

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Timothy Gao reviews @dannybwright.bsky.social 's The Grounds of the Novel for Review 19, " For Wright, the strange ontological foundations of novelistic worlds become a "resource" (6) for thinking through our own ambiguities and ethics of being": www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

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THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL by Daniel Wright, Reviewed by Timothy Gao

Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Paging George Eliot! www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/s...

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Parents of small children everywhere cursing the Oscars for the early start time on the first post-lost-hour evening. Bedtimes are *complicated* tonight Academy!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

I am *so excited* for this book, and not only because it is authored by a fellow Daniel W. I've been lucky enough to get to know snippets of Daniel's brilliant work over the years, and am so eager to get to know more of it!

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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP! Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024 Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Days later, still have not recovered emotional equilibrium after watching Andrew Haigh’s remarkable ALL OF US STRANGERS. Double whammy of impact as both a gay man and a parent!!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

There's still time to get a 30% discount on THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL, through the end of February (including Leap Day of course!) -- and while you're at it, buy some of the many exciting new titles from SUP: Fyfe, MacDuffie, Kasa, Wong, Marriott, etc. etc. etc. etc. www.sup.org/books/title/...

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, The Grounds of the Novel by Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon w/ the ontological status of their works www.sup.org/books/title/...

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Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Important thread.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

The response to a revenue gap is not to fire instructors and reduce classes; this simply destroys FTEs and retention, which means you're taking in less revenue, which means you'll make cuts again. It's like an automaker saying they'll stave off bankruptcy by simply not making cars.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Today’s the day! THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is out in the world. I’m proud of this book and eager to hear what you all think about it.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Flight cancelled, and now ensconced in a room at the airport hotel watching Netflix. Straight from Pearson airport to campus bright and early tomorrow morning!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Yes, Air Canada, alas! Not even a weather issue, mechanical problems!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Practicing the most ancient of MLA rituals for us Canadians: extreme flight delay, bracing for likely cancellation, when I’m supposed to teach tomorrow morning. Pray for me.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

En route to MLA. See you in Philly!

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Buy Amy’s book, and since you’re getting such a great discount, get my book too!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/01/2024

Gordon Gee is still president of West Virginia University.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Publishing a piece of academic writing can sometimes feel like dropping a precious thing to the bottom of the ocean and hoping an intrepid diver will happen upon it. I love hearing responses from readers, so please be in touch if you’re out there!

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