Prof @EdinburghUni / Romanticism and Philosophy / Waste / I am already eating from the trash can all the time; the name of this trash can is ideology.
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Percy Shelley's heart (or possibly his liver) was indeed found in Mary Shelley's travel writing-desk after her death in 1851, wrapped in silk between the pages of an edition of 'Adonais', Percy's elegy on the death of John Keats. More here gothickeatspress.com/shelley…
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Mary Shelley is rumoured to have kept Percy Shelley's heart in a silken shroud, carrying it with her for years. After she died it is said that the heart was found in her desk wrapped in his poems. It's hard to out goth that! #FolkloreSunday 🎨encased embalmed hearts
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New Cambridge Element, The Wise Club by Charles Bradford Bow, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
cup.org/4wKrcFt
#cambridgeelements #literature
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What a beautiful building!
Donaldson's College, Edinburgh
David Roberts (1796–1864)
City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh
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Novalis's ‘Heinrich von Ofterdingen' by Owen Ware
A highly detailed and original interpretation of Novalis's unfinished masterpiece, featuring a new annotated translation.
cup.org/4xqitZG
#europeanlit
ALT Cover of "Heinrich von Ofterdingen" by Novalis, edited and translated by Owen Ware. It features a classic portrait of a person in historical attire with a green background.
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Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s edited by Emma Mason
A collaborative study revealing the 1810s as characterised not merely by cultural transition, but by unforeseen change, hope, and renewal.
📘 cup.org/4vXlcKj
#18thcentury
ALT Cover of "Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s," edited by Emma Mason. The design features a dramatic landscape with swirling clouds and light, evoking a sense of transition.
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In Polidori's The Vampyre of 1819 we see the #vampire as rake or libertine. No longer a revenant of Eastern Europe, this predatory creature is an English Lord with irresistible powers of seduction. The story of this Romantic Vampire is out in paperback in June #FolkloreSunday
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The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith.
eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/
#C18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #18thCentury #poems
ALT Facsimile of the title page of Cowper's The Task (1785)
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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Explore our digital exhibition 'Edinburgh: A City of Contrasts' exploringcontrasting representations of #Edinburgh in our Fine Art collection.
artuk.org/discover/curations…
View of Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, Patrick Gibson (1782–1829)
ALT View of the city of Edinburgh, showing the castle on the hill , with the town spreading out below it towards the sea, under a cloudy sky.
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I’m remembering John Martin today. Instead of the usual “Witch of the Alps” inspired by Byron’s poem Manfred (1817), I’m thinking of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826). Although it was inspired by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell’s poem of 1823, here is Martin’s painting The Last Man (1849).
Romanticist painter John Martin died #OTD 1854. The first is a scene from Lord Byron’s poem Manfred when the “Witch of the Alps rises beneath the arch of the sunbow.” The ghostly apparition next to him is what she demands as payment for relieving his suicidal despair: his soul.
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"Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still."
(Sir Walter Scott)
May your evening be stupendous this #NewYear. #HappyNewYear
Image Scott Monument Museum #Edinburgh
ALT Statue of Sir Walter Scott inside Scott Monument. Stained Glass window behind
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Please join us for this upcoming event! Book your free place here
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Still time to book for our 12th December symposium @EdinburghUni organised by @LoisMBurke & @_SELCIE_🦉 funded by the British Academy! #scottishlit #womenswriting #irishlit #childrensliterature
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Turner’s sketchbook, the size of a small wallet, in the tremendous Turner Constable @tatebritain
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✒️ Call for papers! The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association seeks proposals for a session on Romantic disenchantment at MLA 2027. Learn more: ow.ly/KQXC50XqCUY
ALT The Wordsworth Circle
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"I have no appetites, passions, or vanities which lead to expense. In books only am I intemperate - they have been both bane and blessing to me."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1803
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The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive knowledge base is accessible via #SPARQL, enabling semantic queries and data integration. This infrastructure underpins the interactive "Networks"-view on the website and is the basis for further computational analysis and application development.
ALT Screenshot of the Networks view in the RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive.
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The next free event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk on Tuesday 2nd December (6.30pm start) by @DaleGothic96 on 'Gothic Architecture and Gothic Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century'. See here for further details and to book a place: tinyurl.com/4mmyfhbw
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'A life-sized sculpture of Jane Austen has been unveiled in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the writer's birth.' bbc.com/news/articles/c8740g…