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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And the most astonishing of all, Yeats’s Vision and the Later Plays (Vendler, 1963), with an inscription by Vendler, citing Yeats, that says: “Thought is a garment and the soul’s a bride / that cannot in that trash and tinsel hide. In polemic love, Helen”

Yeats’s Vision and the Later Plays (Vendler, 1963), owned by Harold Bloom,
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Title page, Yeats’s Vision and the Later Plays (Vendler, 1963), owned by Harold Bloom

Inner flyleaf, Yeats’s Vision and the Later Plays (Vendler, 1963), with an inscription by Vendler that says:

“Thought is a garment and the soul’s a bride / that cannot in that trash and tinsel hide.

In polemic love, Helen”

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy 283rd birthday, Anna Letitia Barbauld! Here, from 1795, is her at once funny, domestic, and sublime poem "Inscription for an Ice-House," offered in honour of her day, and also as a reminder to my UK friends who are anticipating a heat wave. Do consider putting ice in your drinks please!

Inscription for an Ice-House
Stranger, approach! within this iron door
Thrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneath
That vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confined
By man, the great magician, who controuls
Fire, earth and air, and genii of the storm,
And bends the most remote and opposite things
To do him service and perform his will,—
A giant sits; stern Winter; here he piles,
While summer glows around, and southern gales
Dissolve the fainting world, his treasured snows
Within the rugged cave.—Stranger, approach!
He will not cramp thy limbs with sudden age,
Nor wither with his touch the coyest flower
That decks thy scented hair. Indignant here,
Like fettered Sampson when his might was spent
In puny feats to glad the festive halls
Of Gaza's wealthy sons; or he who sat
Midst laughing girls submiss, and patient twirled
The slender spindle in his sinewy grasp;
The rugged power, fair Pleasure's minister,
Exerts his art to deck the genial board;
Congeals the melting peach, the nectarine smooth,
Burnished and glowing from the sunny wall:
Darts sudden frost into the crimson veins
Of the moist berry; moulds the sugared hail:
Cools with his icy breath our flowing cups;
Or gives to the fresh dairy's nectared bowls
A quicker zest. Sullen he plies his task,
And on his shaking fingers counts the weeks
Of lingering Summer, mindful of his hour
To rush in whirlwinds forth, and rule the year.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

And here from the early #19thc, & Jane Austen's era--which, let's face it, not enough of us associate with collage--please see a page-spread created ca. 1821 by Miss Mary Watson & her friend Miss Ross (for an album now in the Special Collections Library at Manchester Metropolitan University).

Open book formed of blue sugar paper, with multiple clippings, mainly of print, though there is one bit of handwriting arrayed at various angles across the page. It also incorporated pasted in heads of female figures, maybe scavenged from fashion plates. If you look really closely you do find the clipped out words "Miss Watson"
The biggest print comes at the top of the left-hand page: "On Friday Evening" in big bold type.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"[A]n intriguing study of the anarchic literary environment from which celebrity authors bloomed." @TheTLS reviews THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP, by Sarah Danielle Allison. tinyurl.com/htv44f84 @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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‘My name is not Tom’

In April 1877, hundreds of people crammed into a hall in Glasgow to listen to “Uncle Tom”. The elderly man before them, whose wildly popular autobiography

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

yesss central questions from brilliant #navsa2025 paper but make it 007 & benoit blanc

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Hi friends, @nupress.bsky.social books are 50% off right now with code NEWYEAR, meaning that if one wanted to preorder my Gothic novella for $10, one could ❤️‍🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948030...

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The Turn - Northwestern University Press

A contemporary gothic delving into the power of unmoored lust and familial bondsWhen Baxter, a young writer and recent college graduate, accepts a live-in na...

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Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

In the Great Expectations country last Sunday, how’s this for a Dickensian scene @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social

Rotting ship timbers at low tide on marshes North Kent coast

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

let the record show that this production was one for the ages

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social

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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My watch says today's temp range is 47 degrees to 74 degrees. This is three seasons for New Orleanians and "shorts weather" for midwesterners.

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

reviewed great collection on writers & new media in the 19C print culture sublime! ed and intro by alexis easley w essays by @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social & more! in Review 19 -- www.review19.org/view_doc.php... & looking forward to talking about it at @navsa2025.bsky.social !!

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BRITISH WRITERS, POPULAR LITERATURE AND NEW MEDIA INNOVATION, 1820-45 by Alexis Easley, ed., Reviewed by Sarah Allison

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

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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A timely roundtable at #NAVSA2025: "Victorianist Work After the University as We Knew It." A great conversation with Sarah Allison, Gordon Bigelow, Ruth McAdams, Rachel Sagner Buurma, & Kyoko Takanashi.

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🦇 #BatAppreciationMonth #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Contemporary mystacinidae (pseudonym) AFRICAN YELLOW WINGED BAT, 2010) Watercolour

https://www.deviantart.com/mystacinidae/art/African-Yellow-Winged-Bat-155584088

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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Broad St underpass is the only reported road closure so far. All you cities new to flash flooding - this is my pay attention to Louisiana pitch. New Orleans' community-sourced real-time flooding map. Streetwise.nola.gov

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The first look at a book cover is always so exciting (w/ @cookiegoth.bsky.social)

Cover image of Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland edited by Renee Fox and Mary L. Mullen

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New review up on Review 19--Ruth McAdams on Lindsey N. Chappell's Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean: Writing British Heritage in Ancient Lands: www.review19.org/index.php

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

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I have for several years been obsessed with so-called PKM tools -- it's what I play with instead of Being Productive -- and I think I've finally found an actual long-term winner with the db version of logseq (which is still not formally released).

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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

So there's hope?

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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Are you the only human being who remains uncorrupted when given power? Consider moderating a panel!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Ben Franklin:

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

as the poet has it: you're my soda pop my little soda pop ah ahhhh)

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Did you publish a book in 2025/2024? Are you attending NAVSA this November? Do you want to celebrate your book? If so, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1tJH...

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NAVSA Book Party!!

To celebrate books published in 2025/2024 at the 2025 NAVSA conference. If you are an author who published a book and want to celebrate it, fill out this form. Please share with other authors attendin...

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Re-posting for no reason: New Orleans has recorded fewer murders through August this year than any year since 1970 (includes Jan 1).

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The grey stone walls, the broken country, the meagre trees, seemed to be telling him afresh the story of that painful past which he knew so well by heart. But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

does anybody need me to explain frankenstein

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Now available! A rich account of the competing and complementary forces that shape images of authors, THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP reveals the collaborative work of literary production and celebrity. buff.ly/GpP4bcV @sarahdallison.bsky.social

Now available! Includes the cover of Sarah Danielle Allison's The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery and a blurb by Alison Booth. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

for real and for true, the RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP is out!! The code CUP20 will get you 20% through the Columbia University Press website; let me know if you are dying to read it but need a presentation copy from the author, who is very excited about it------!! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...

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The Rise of Celebrity Authorship | Columbia University Press

Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, ... | CUP

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Do I eat this cold meatball or do I walk it upstairs to the microwave in the history dept pls vote ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

Book cover. The top of the image is covered in overlapping black&white and sepia photographs of Black pas from the early to mid 20th century. Below that, against a seafoam green or robin's egg blue (depends on your view I suppose!), the book's title "The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is printed in black. There is a small white rectangle inset that reads "Dorothy Berry"

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Someone asked me this week what's good about being a professor. Today my answer is, I bought the bad edition of Spence's Anecdotes because it is printed from the corrupted copy of the master MS that Garrick read, which Johnson used in writing his Lives. It gives me perverse satisfaction to cite.

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Did you publish your first book in Victorian studies in 2024? If so, submit it for consideration for the Rudikoff Prize. More information here: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...

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Rudikoff Prize

The Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book in Victorian Studies was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman’s late wife. Sonya Rudikoff was an active member of th…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Save 30% on #NewBook "As If!" by Chase Gregory, which explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. buff.ly/9CMH1iw #QueerTheory

Cover of As If!: Queer Criticism Across Difference by Chase Gregory. The design mimics a yellow plaid spiral notebook against a bright red background. The title “As If!” appears in bold white letters on a black oval that resembles a sticker. A strip of green tape below reads “Queer Criticism Across Difference” in black capital letters. The author’s name is displayed on a piece of black tape.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"Before I wrote this book, I was determined not to."-- Ragini Srinivasan In OVERDETERMINED, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan explores the politics of identity in literary studies and the complexities of teaching minoritized literatures in the West. bit.ly/3IhmpHX @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Steve Nellis @snellis.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🌱Dahlia Night Butterfly. This has usually been ravaged by earwigs, but is faring better this year. The red is nearly velvet.

Luxe hues of ruby red and cool white come together in one striking dahlia--a stunner planted in a mixed butterfly garden. The 4½" blooms make great cut flowers, too.

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

best $5 i spend every month -- dirt nerd's garden philosophy is with me always -- would love to see a supporter-level subscription tier! @antigravitymag.bsky.social

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If you want to return the favor, you can go to one of the singular New Orleans businesses that support us, knowing that your money will not be plummeting into the abyss of corporate profits, never to be seen again. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

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LETTER FROM AN EDITOR - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

I have known that the mainstream media offered little in the way of a promising future my whole adult life—not for me, anyway, ever the misfit. But I had no idea how much trouble the American institut...

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Nothing says quality tomatoes like Martin Luther.

A package of tomatoes called Luther Tomate with a picture of Martin Luther

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

there’s a certain slant of light summer afternoons that looks the mask of mf doom

sunlight reflecting on a garage door, kind of looks like mf doom

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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Here's who to gift this to: - likes reading, but not fiction - likes reading, but not women - likes reading, but not people of color - don't like reading, but they like history - doesn't know what they're teaching next semester - doesn't know what you, a humanist, do or why - hasn't read Baldwin

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A Literary Tour of the United States

Journey from sea to shining sea to discover the richness and diversity of American writing in this deeply researched literary road trip.

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

friends the new book is AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New book from @uncpress.bsky.social: Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement by Ashley Howard uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

on teaching & noticing -- first Elaine Auyoung in PMLA tinyurl.com/3r7rtzznKara and now Kara Wittman in Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy tinyurl.com/2d5k5zph

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