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Dale Townshend
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
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Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 2h
Great advice! Thank you, G!

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 19h
I bought them, Geoff. They’re ridiculously overpriced, aren’t they? £25 for a small punnet.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 22h
Very 😂

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 1d
Decorated the Christmas cake with glacé fruit and glaze.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 1d
Lazy KITTN ™️

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 1d
Mary!!! 🤣

Reposted by Keith Lilley, Valentina Bold

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 2d
Another early Christmas gift from @angelawright1794.bsky.social and me: Jimmy Packham's splendid book on 'Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020' has just been published, and is available on open access for the next 2 weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 2d
🥁

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 2d
May you always sleep as soundly as Dickens-cat.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 3d
Delicious 😋

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 3d
Ghosts at the window

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 3d
Hideous experience, iPoof. Hope you’re not too shaken.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 3d
My favourite gif 🤣

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 3d
Did you put the tree up yourself, Mary?

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks Jen!

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 4d
I saw that, C. Thank you. It’s not on Ecco or on Ncco. I think it’s on the separate ‘Rare Texts from the Sadleir Black Collection’ database. The only uni in the UK that appears to have it is Durham.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 4d
Do any Gothic people have access to a digital copy of the following text? Anon, _Phantoms of the cloister, or, The mysterious manuscript : a novel : in three volumes_, 1795. I'd be so grateful if anyone had this, and could email digital copies of the volumes to me.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 5d
The message of Chanukah—that light will always triumph over darkness—is more important today than ever. 💔

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 5d
One of those workouts in which, five minutes in, I had absolutely nothing left in the tank. Muddled through, but now I bloody deserve a mince pie 🥧

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 6d
A mushroom, thyme, Emmental and Gruyère lattice 👌

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 8d
The bust on my right is that of John Keats, showing his actual height. I’m 6-foot tall. Keats was TINY 🤏

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 8d
Exciting evening at Keats House, London, for Michael Gamer’s public lecture on Ann Radcliffe for our @radcliffecup.bsky.social project.
Portrait of John Keats Keats’s famous ‘chameleon poet’ letter Manuscript of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, which was written while he lived here. Michael Gamer and Angela Wright.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 9d
New Elements in the Gothic title, available via open access for the next 2 weeks: Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830 by Jakub Lipski @angelawright1794.bsky.social url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/vsrkC2gknc...
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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 9d
Great novel — and perfect reading for this time of year. A slow burner, but quietly devastating and deeply poetic. Loved it.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 10d
Sweet dreams 😴

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 11d
Does anyone know of any scholars who are doing interesting work on AI and the Gothic? Anyone out there?

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 11d
🤣

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 11d
Great idea, Matthew!

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 11d
This has proven to be a useful way of addressing the problem of AI in the classroom: 1) ask students to use AI to generate a piece of work (in this case, a close reading of a poem); 2) ask them to write their own analysis of the same poem; 3) ask them to reflect on the differences between them. 👍

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 11d
Hello, iPoof 👋