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Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sheffield.

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We start 2021 with a meeting for the C19 studies reading group, to be held on 27 January, 3-4 pm! Our theme of discussion will be "Space, Race, and the Early Feminists"! Feel free to join us for a fantastic talk! Please contact [email protected] for the link 😃
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Terror is very fond of associations; we love to connect the agitation of the elements with the agitated life of man; and never did a blast roar ... that was not connected in the imagination of some one, with a calamity that was to be dreaded. Charles Maturin, Melmoth (1820)
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Enjoy our new English reading list for the festive season! Here is a post dedicated to our top 10 personal favourites, but please feel free to send us your own reading list for the holidays! ☃️❄️ #readingforpleasure #Christmastime #LiteraturePosts teachingenglishisfun.co.uk/p…
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Illuminating session yesterday on our topic 'The Window to the Other World' as part of the 'Spaces of One's Own in the long Nineteenth-Century' series! Great texts, great discussion, great people! Thank you everyone! See you soon!!!😃
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I just want to give some appreciation to Vernon Lee, queer ghost story writer and aesthete extraordinaire. I mean, look at this woman's style.
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The Centre for Nineteenth-century Studies Reading group is happy to announce the next meeting on Tuesday the 1st of December 2020 to discuss selected texts under the title: 'Spaces of One's Own in the long Nineteenth-Century' For more, please contact [email protected].
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Hi all! Halloween week is here and we can't wait for tomorrow's online Halloween meeting! Please see the poster below for more details. For suggested texts and the Zoom link, please contact [email protected].
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For a full Halloween mood, the 'Ghoul School' is the best! Please see details below:
Ghoul Guides (@TheGhoulGuides) profile pictureGhoul Guides@TheGhoulGuides23 Oct 2020
We're ghouls, we guide, we're the Ghoul Guides. And, in an attempt to live up to our name, we introduce to you a brand new show: Ghoul School! Coming to you Friday 30th Oct (in time for #Halloween🎃) Ghoul School, a show where we detangle the terms & technicalities of the #Gothic
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Spooky season is upon us! Our Halloween meeting is to be held on Thursday the 29th at 15:00! For the Zoom link, please contact [email protected]! Looking forward to meeting you all! 👻☠️☠️☠️ @SheffieldGothic @RomGothSam
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The 19th-century reading group is back and going online! This spooky season we invite everyone who is interested to join us for a Halloween-themed discussion on our favourite 19th-century stories of ghosts and haunting! More details about day and time will be announced! 👻👻👻
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Literature of the English Country House - Online Course - FutureLearn

Literature of the English Country House - Online Course - FutureLearn

Examine representations of English country houses throughout literature and develop your own interpretations of the texts with this online course from the University of Sheffield.

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#3 The Skeleton; or, Mysterious Discovery. A Gothic Romance (1805) by Isaac Crookenden
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Registration is now open for the 'Romantic Futurities' Conference! Please check out the announcement and the way to register below: BARS PG & ECR Conference 2020: Romantic Futurities Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:00 - Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:00 BST romanticfuturities.com/regis…
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Our Centre for Nineteenth-century Studies reading group will be meeting online this month! More details will be announced in the next few days! I hope you are all well and safe, and while we are all working from home here is an interesting article for you to look into:
Romantic Legacies (@RomanticLegaci1) profile pictureRomantic Legacies@RomanticLegaci112 Apr 2020
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The Fever Room: Epidemics and Social Distancing in “Bleak House” and “Jane Eyre”

For the characters of the Dickens and Brontë novels, social distancing was a blunt instrument for preventing the spread of disease in the absence of other scientific tricks—and there is a shortage of...

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Congratulations to our valuable member Amanda Blake Davis for passing her viva! We are super proud of you! ❤️
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Due to the distressing coronavirus situation, we are unfortunately postponing our March reading group meeting. We urge all of you to stay home and stay safe, this is an extremely difficult situation to all of us. We hope things go back to normal soon, in the meantime take care!
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Its the final week of the #UCUstrikes so Sheffield Gothic HQ will be striking all week and observing the #DigitalPicket. We'll be back to raising demons next week ✊😈 #UCUStrikesBack #FourFights
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Here at @SheffieldGothic and @TheReimagining we're back from striking this week - but we know not everyone is so we're still observing the #DigitalPicket. We'll get back to tweeting and responding next Friday. #UCUstrike #FourFights teapaw.org/USSbriefs/status/12329…
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#InternationalWomensDay We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; ... we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. George Eliot, Letters (1870)
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Interested in MA programmes in English at @shefenglish ? Come along to this.
School of English (@shefenglish) profile pictureSchool of English@shefenglish23 Jan 2020
Are you interested in #Literature, #linguistics and/or #theatre at the PG level? Come to our PGT Open Day on the 26th of February! #sheffield #SoELove #HigherEducation sheffield.ac.uk/english/post… sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate…
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Hello everyone! Feel free to check out our blog post for a summary of our previous reading group sessions, and a short overview of the upcoming one! You are warmly invited to send us blog pieces about your research, interests,etc. and we will post them! 19cstudiesblog.wixsite.com/c…
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