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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 30/08/2026

“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…” @profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers her position in the Scottish #Gothic tradition #FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein 💙📚 www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...

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Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition | National Library of Scotland

Explore the profound impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on literature and culture.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/08/2026

Mary Shelley’s #Gothic Dundee 26 Aug, online SWI members free; non-members £6.13 “My habitual residence was on the blank & dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…” @profdanielcook.bsky.social on how Dundee shaped Mary Shelley’s imagination #romanticism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swi-expert...

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SWI Expert Talk: Mary Shelley's Gothic Dundee

Discover how Dundee shaped Mary Shelley's imagination in this online talk with Professor Daniel Cook from the University of Dundee.

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The Dundee Review @dundeegothic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Mary Shelley's Dundee (www.maryshelley.co.uk) histories, biographies, an interactive map, the "Dundee Edition" of Frankenstein, comics, annual writing prizes, resources and more (with teaching guides and materials, and SO MUCH more, to come) - FREE

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“It is his vegetable ambition never to stir” (Margaret Anne Doody on Mr Bennet) #happyfathersday #prideandprejudice

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The Dundee Review @dundeegothic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Dundee Review is a twenty-first-century literary magazine for original gothic, terror, horror and fantasy fiction. Submit your stories now! We pay, and we have prizes. dundeereview.com

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

✈️📚 (Dublin, here I come!)

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 04/04/2026

You can read “Wandering Willie’s Tale”, along with two other short stories by Walter Scott – “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror” & “The Two Drovers” – in our free ebook AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social 💙📚 #C19 asls.org.uk/publications...

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As It Was Told to Me

Introduction by Daniel Cook By: Association for Scottish Literature, 2021 Published in: PDF, ePUB and Mobi Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists…

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“O, wert thou in the cauld blast On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.” #BurnsNight

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Coming soon: MARY SHELLEY'S DUNDEE (art by Katy Stone)

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market… www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 15/10/2025

Read Scott’s “The Two Drovers” in this free ebook, AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME: Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social – featuring 🪞 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror 🐮🗡️ The Two Drovers 🐒🔥😈 Wandering Willie’s Tale 💙📚 3/3 asls.org.uk/publications...

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As It Was Told to Me

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/10/2025

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

THE GULLIVER TRILOGY #1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library) #2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels #3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)

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Book cover: The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager

Book cover: Daniel Cook, Gulliver’s Afterlives

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 30/08/2025

“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…” @profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition #FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...

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Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition | National Library of Scotland

Explore the profound impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on literature and culture.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Orwell's Animal Farm was first published #otd 80 years ago

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“And what I write I cast upon the stream, / To swim or sink - I have had at least my dream.” - Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (Canto XIV)

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.” Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I’ll be spending the rest of this blissful morning in the National Library of Scotland, followed by my first ever trip to the Royal Society of Edinburgh this afternoon 🚆📚

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

As Dundee is a city of creativity and design our Humanities team is launching a brand-new Taught Postgraduate course this September: Writing for the Creative Economies (MLitt, part time). For more information and to apply visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate.... Spread the word, mes amis!

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Jonathan Swift #StPatricksDay

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

“Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life’, that we may live.” Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Did you know that Gulliver has appeared in Doctor Who and Star Trek? As my book Gulliver's Afterlives reveals, the fantastical voyager has been busy for 300 years. I'll be presenting a paper in the Sheffield Hallam/Bangor Early Modern Seminar on 11 March (online). www.bangor.ac.uk/languages-li...

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Sheffield Hallam/Bangor Early Modern Seminar Series | School of Arts, Culture and Language | Bangor University

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Interested in Literary Studies? Read free issues of The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism and The Byron Journal via the LUP website: bit.ly/FREE-ISSUES-LUP @lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social‬ @asecsoffice.bsky.social

An image of four stacked journal issues containing The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism, and The Byron journal on a beige background.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Barely a week to-go before the annual Romancing the Gothic charity teachathon! 15th February - it runs all day so people can join from any timezone for at least some of it Sessions recorded so you don't miss out THIRTEEN (13) amazing talks and workshops www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1141089402...

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Goths for Breakfast

An online days of Gothic and horror classes and workshops to support the charity Magic Breakfast

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

“In time we hate that which we often fear” #ShakespeareSunday

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