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Kit Richards

@kitrichards.bsky.social

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Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Working on disability in fantasy and medieval literature.

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Fascinating discussion on Wilkie Collins' critique of colonialist beliefs in English superiority

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes We have our final speaker of the 'Gender and Empire' panel; Chimi Woo is speaking on 'Religion and Otherness in the Victorian Novel'

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Sophie Gwilt's paper is a fascinating and important discussion about the way in which the authority of adults over children is emphasised in Australian literature to parallel and justify the racist colonial power structures forced onto the indigenous Australians by white Europeans.

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Brilliant commentary from Sydney Wildman on the geological agency in Haggard's 'She' and how the landscape undermines the colonial intentions of the British characters by forcing them to crawl

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Heading into the final panel of the day with a fascinating talk by Sydney Wildman on 'Imperial Anxieties in Rider Haggard's "She: A History of Adventurr" (1887)'

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Excited to hear the key note from Richard Fallon on 'Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction' at #VPFAExtremes

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Fascinating observations on the impact of the scientific discovery of sound waves on artistic responses to music from Emilie Laurent

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Final speaker in our panel is Emilie Laurent speaking on gender, desire and monstrous nonconformity in Vernon Lee's 'A Wicked Voice'. Love me a bit of monster theory!

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

How did I never know that 'mondaine' was a word for a 'cosmopolitan female dandy'! Thank you, Lucy, I have a new favourite word!

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Starting strong on day two of VPFA 2025! We have Christina Hafner up first speaking on 'Art and Life' in Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and Hardy’s The Well-Beloved #VPFAExtremes

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