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Chris Louttit
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Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social‬. He/him
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My article “‘In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man’: Queerness and Masculinity in Frankenstein (1818) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)” has been published in the Keats Shelley Review! 👇🏼

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‘In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man’: Queerness and Masculinity in Frankenstein (1818) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
This article examines the intersections of queerness, masculinity and heteronormativity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and its queer adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). While R...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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dickenssociety.bsky.social
The deadline for our upcoming symposium 'Thinking Dickens' (Aarhus University, Denmark - 13-16th July 2026) is approaching! Don't forget to send your proposals to dickens2026@cc.au.dk by 4th January 📝 & read the Call for Papers here: www.dickenssociety.org/symposium
Symposium — The Dickens Society
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January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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3volumenovel.bsky.social
New end of the year update to At the Circulating Library: just passed 26,000 titles (third of the way through English Catalogue volume 4), plus hundreds of new author biographies. Enjoy!
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social
Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social
Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, showing a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.
December 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I have a new piece out in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social for Christmas Eve: Louisa May Alcott wrote to survive for much of her life. What became of her love affair with words later, when she was rich and adapted Dickens' A Christmas Carol for children?
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A Forgotten Louisa May Alcott Story Showcases the Author's Twist on Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Written in 1882, "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True," covered many of the same themes as Dickens' classic, albeit with a different audience in mind
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December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Off to spend my Christmas Eve with Muppet Christmas Carol & One Battle After Another, & then taking a bit of time away from this place. Have a great festive season all!
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Oh my, just seen there's a Muppet Christmas Carol Soft Toy Advent Calendar...
A large box with doors containing soft toy versions of characters from The Muppet Christmas Carol.
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"Christmas Morning". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 7 of 7).
An old man in nightdress leans out of an upstairs window.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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wychstreet.bsky.social
In London a time comes every day where the ghosts get their own back. It's often subtle but always undeniable, and it's strongest in autumn & winter.

If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
1 The church, rather ugly Victorian gothic 2 Down the alley at the side, the Victorian lamp of the Jampot at left 3 Up the alley, with the Jampot lamp and door
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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michaelshallcross.bsky.social
As the year draws to an end, I've been reflecting on the loss of my friend and former supervisor, Simon James, a truly wonderful man. It feels like an especially appropriate time to share this public lecture from 2015, in which Simon discusses the importance of memorial rituals in A Christmas Carol.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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"Scrooge and the Third Spirit". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 6 of 7).
A figure draped and hooded in a black robe points at a grave; a startled old man wearing a night-cap ('tis his grave, after all), clutches at the figure's dark robe.
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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nicktankard.bsky.social
The Signalman.

My cheery Christmas gift to you. Have a jolly peaceful one.

Back after the festivities 🎅🏼👍🏻
A black pen and printmaking ink illustration of a man stood outside a railway signal box situated in a dark and gloomy ravine. The Signal box is the only source of light, its light illuminates railway tracks and the rocky ravine surrounding it. The railway track disappears into the mouth of a dark tunnel. At the mouth of the tunnel stands another more ghostly figure. Atmospheric and spooky.
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Buy my holly green and gay, to deck your walls on Christmas day

The Met
1874
Christmas card with red and white border. A young boy strolls next to a wooden cart carrying colorful holly. He has a giant bird with brown wings and a red breast pulling the cart. Text: Buy my holly green and gay, to deck your walls on Christmas day
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 5 of 7).
A middle-aged man with a long scarf touches his hat. He his carrying his son, who is holding a crutch, on his shoulders.
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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dickenssociety.bsky.social
The Dickens Society is thrilled to announce: 'Novel Beginnings: The Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference' on 7th February 2026.

The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
December 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"The Second of the Three Spirits". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 4 of 7).
A bowed, night-cap wearing older man looks towards a giant, bearded figure holding a glowing torch. They are surrounded by plentiful food and drink.
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · Dec 2
⏱️ COUNTDOWN to the AAS 2026 proposal deadline, 15 Dec! Adaptation & Aurality, echoing through the Canadian Rockies at Burman University...sounds amazing!👂

Online panels also available for participants who cannot join in person. 💻 Details on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
AAS Conference 2026 - Call For Papers - The Association of Adaptation Studies
Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026 “Adaptation and Aurality” Call for Papers Dates: July 7-10, 2026 Location: Burman University - Lacombe, Alberta, Canada Hosted by: Burman Unive...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
When the light begins to return, and you all watch winter #solstice sunset images, the next summer solstice comes closer. Here is a 19c etching of Stonehenge's summer solstice, illuminated from behind by the rising sun; with a few sheep in foreground at left.
View of Stonehenge, illuminated from behind by the rising sun; a figure and flock of sheep in foreground at left. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1919-0116-1
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
It would perhaps surprise no one that I was raised with public radio as the background noise to my daily existence, so it was a singular delight getting to go on NPR to talk about Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol omny.fm/shows/in-the...
Christmas Special: Tobias Wilson-Bates on Charles Dickens - In These Times with Bill Nigut
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December 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"Marley's Ghost Appearing to Scrooge". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 3 of 7).
A ghostly figure in chains looms over an older man with a nightcap sitting beside a fireplace
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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michamahlberg.bsky.social
I love a bit of literary tourism - visiting places I know from stories in books and films. So what a joy it was to talk to Lee Jackson about #Dickensland!
Join us for the start of the new season of #LifeandLanguage
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December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"Not a knocker,--but Marley's Face!" Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 2 of 7).
A door-knocker in the form of a very life-like man's face
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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comicsinthega.bsky.social
On December 19, 1843, A Christmas Carol was first published. This is a 1946 edition from King Features Syndicate. With a cover & interior art by Hal Foster, the endpages show characters such as Flash Gordon, the Phantom, Prince Valiant, Popeye, Olive Oyl, Blondie, the Katzenjammer Kids & many more.
The cover shows a snow covered church at night. The first two interior pages are an illustration of various comic strip characters at a feast. There is a Christmas tree in the background. The last two pages are an illustration of various comic strip characters riding in Santa's sleigh while some of the kids have a snowball fight.
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
drchrislouttit.bsky.social
In 1892, Charles Green contributed 28 fresh illustrations to a reprinting of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. To kick off my Christmas Carol illustration advent this year, here's his half-page title. (1/7)
The title of Pears' Christmas Annual for 1892, with a young man gazing to his left above Charles Dickens's signature
December 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Birmingham Town Hall (UK). New! Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens' first public reading of A Christmas Carol in 1853.
#novella #fiction #literature #English
Birmingham Town Hall. Birmingham Town Hall is a concert hall and venue for popular assemblies opened in 1834 and situated in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The hall underwent a major renovation between 2002 and 2007. It hosts a diverse programme of events including jazz, world, folk, rock, pop and classical concerts, organ recitals, spoken word, dance, family, educational and community performances, as well as annual general meetings, product launches, conferences, dinners, fashion shows, graduation ceremonies and broadcasts. Birmingham Civic Trust. Birmingham Town Hall blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens' first public reading of A Christmas Carol in 1853 to an audience of 2000.
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM