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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Now full special issue that I and Dr. Burak Sayim co-edited is out! "#ColdWar internationalisms of/in the #decolonizing world." Most of articles are #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsix21/1...

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The Global Sixties

Volume 19, Issue 1 of The Global Sixties

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Tristram Shandy 2026 @tristramshandy2026.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Substack’s inaugural post is up! Come check out the page! It has all the information about meeting times and how to stay involved! All are welcome to join the reading group. Come hang out with us! tristramshandy2026.substack.com/p/the-tristr...

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The Tristrapaedia

Your Guide to Tristram Shandy 2026

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📚 The Politics of Rare Books: Colonial legacies, libraries, provenances 21 September Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4gcpiXM This event aims to advance conversations on how historical connections to the slave trade within library collections can be communicated to the public

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

ABC ... Grammatica, "The Seven Liberal Arts" Sebald Beham, (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt) Met Collection.

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Grammatica, "The Seven Liberal Arts"
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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We’re delighted to announce that Professor Leah Price has been appointed to the Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History.

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Professor Leah Price appointed as Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One thing AI can't do: experience the world through my sensorium sinykin.substack.com/p/to-make-th...

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To Make the Stone Stony

I want to see again

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I always assign “Art as Device” in my introductory world literature class. Students find it inspiring, and I can’t think of a better way to begin thinking about what literature does/can do, and why it is so interesting to think about how we actually see things.

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The introduction to Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia: The Secret Order of Shandeans (OUP, 2026) is free to read until 19 August. If you’re interested in book history or Soviet culture, I hope you’ll take a look. Please share with anyone who might enjoy it! + Photos of readers!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Free idea?? The University Review of Books—a new online OA member supported book review focused on scholarly nonfiction books, any discipline or period, that’s not rooted in a particular place or uni but understands “the uni” as the knowledge we—people!—produce together.

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Katherine L. Brown @klbrownphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Today is the official release date of my first book! 🎉 I am grateful to the many people who have made this a reality and am thrilled to see it in print (and my cats are thrilled to have another empty box!). Available now from @oxunipress.bsky.social : global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

the cuts to higher education in the UK are ideological. they are based in a false valuation of the humanities that is entirely founded in erroneous concepts of employability and demand. these cuts are not financially necessary; they are a stripping of the humanities for political reasons.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

paperbacks! 📚🖤

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🚨RADICAL PRINT CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 🚨 The Programme is now live (see 🧵), and the symposium will also feature two amazing keynote speakers, a print exhibition and a handling workshop. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Japan Forum's special issue on katakana in Japanese is out @ www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/3... Check out my (OPEN ACCESS) contribution on anti-katakana discourse @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Congratulations! This is fascinating!

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The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Now's a good time to visit the Wild Garden at Shandy Hall laurencesternetrust.org.uk/what-is-shan... Sunshine, shade, flowers, birdsong. Plants & books for sale, house tours today and Monday #gardens #wildlife @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New publication! Edited by me, Nicole Aljoe and Olly Ayers, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, first published in 1782. Now out with Oxford World’s Classics, with extensive introduction and commentary.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

More excellent book post in these parts: Tommy Leonard-Roy’s Writerly Hate in Eighteenth Century Britain, just out from OUP….on good hating and fun hating and the creativity of animosity in the #18thc literary marketplace. I ❤️ this book!

Cover shows Dr Syntax asleep in his armchair surrounded by anthropomorphic books with wings , flying about above his head, sniping at each other

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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Book Announcement: Peter Budrin, "Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia: The Secret Order of Shandeans". 👉 essenglish.org/messenger/bl...

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The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Support Shandy Hall: The Laurence Sterne Trust every time you shop online. Shop through easyfundraising with over 8,000 retailers and raise free donations for them – at no extra cost to you. join.easyfundraising.org.uk/shandyhallth...

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Our cat, Couscous, goes on long walks with us around the neighbourhood. He gets incredibly excited every time!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In some better news, look at this week's exciting book post: this long-awaited, mind-blowing, moving new book on Mary Wollstonecraft, by the brilliant @juliehoo.bsky.social. I and many others in #18thc studies are going to be thinking with this book for years to come.

Cover of Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity by Julie Murray

Black and white version of the portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft painted by John Opie --as though peering out from behind bars.

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I greatly enjoyed the conversation with Jacke. Thank you for having me!

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hey I was just looking up the book Ellie Crookes & I co-edited in 2024 and the hardback is on sale! It is SUPER PRETTY (and contains some absolute bangers) so if you want one for £36 rather than £85, have at it

An angel holding a big shiny thing is facing us but looking off to one side! It has red wings and a golden robe and bare bumpy feet. It's standing against a blue-and-gold starry background. There is a lady's head in a circle looking up at the angel. It's a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and it's on the cover of a book called Medievalism and Reception, edited by Ellie Crookes and Ika Willis.

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Would not have taken its shape without the generous support of @leverhulme.ac.uk

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The print quality of images is very good, which is a huge relief.

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A little late for the book launch, but the copies of my book have finally arrived. 10 years in the making (with all sorts of digressions along the way)!

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Out! Ryu Aerim (Kyushu), "Reception, Translation, and Republicanism: Nakae Chōmin in Global Intellectual History", a review article, "Nakae Chômin, la mise en politique d'une philosophie rousseauiste au Japon" by E. Dufourmont (@classiquesgarnier.bsky.social 2024) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Thank you so much, dear Deidre. Your kind words made my whole week. I hope the class went well nonetheless!

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I greatly enjoyed the conversation with Jacke. Thank you for having me!

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Until May 22 the introduction to my book on Sterne and his Soviet readers is available open-access on Oxford Academic!

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Proofs! Forthcoming chapter in *The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel* amongst stellar company & excellently steered by Prof Chris Morash. I’ll be doing these with some Easter chocolate to power me through #IrishLiterature #Novels #speirgorm #GulliversTravels

Lives and Adventures 2
Irish Men and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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If novels by and about women in the eighteenth century initiate a new literary form for the exploration of interiority, the opposite case might be made for many of the novels by and about Irish men. The long-held belief that the eighteenth century inaugurated a new language of interiority or subjectivity associated with the joint rise of empiricism and the novel has been challenged by scholars such as Jonathan Kramnick who argue that for many writers in the period, the 'ostensible privacy or interiority of mental states is often not at issue' in their writing.' More particularly, the precarity of the novel-reading (and -writing) classes in Ireland, and their awareness of living in a culture in which definitions of a 'gentleman' were dangerously unfixed, seemingly produce literary forms that are constantly veering towards the unstable and anti-mimetic territory of satire, allegory, and the picaresque. One of the best known such works by an Irish writer (if not actually set in Ireland) is Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759-67); unique as it might appear, it sits in a context of other works by Irish writers of the period.* Novels by Anglo-Irish men in the eighteenth century, more often than not, disrupted the very project of bourgeois masculinity that the new literary form of the English novel promulgated as the century progressed." Any survey of Irish men and the novel in eighteenth-century Ireland must thus begin by qualifying what is meant by Irish' and what is meant by 'the novel'. The designations of 'Irish' or "Anglo-Irish' have a contested history both in the historical context of eighteenth-century Ireland and in its ancillary scholarly field of Irish eighteenth-century studies. As James Ward articulates in his essay Irish and Anglo-Irish Writing' (2024):

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today: QMCECS Seminar 31 March Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (Edinburgh) 'Richard Steele and the Corps of Comedy' More info: tinyurl.com/2uy8668m 31 March 2026 Time: 17:15. UK Time. Location: QMUL Mile End Campus ArtsOne, Room 1.36 (entrance from the rear of the building).

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Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Friends in London and in the area! If you are free on the 15th of April, please come to my book launch!

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Akira Kurosawa on writing

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

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