Chris Louttit
@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
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Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
📚 Join us on Nov 13, 2025 (7 PM CET, Zoom) for Dr. Adrianne Wojcik’s lecture:
“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”
Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.
Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/
#QAQV #Dickens
“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”
Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.
Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/
#QAQV #Dickens
Mud and Stars
FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
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Mary Shelley's time living near Dundee on the "blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay" fired her imagination 💭
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Mary Shelley's time living near Dundee on the "blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay" fired her imagination 💭
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
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Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...
Very happy @matthewchambers.bsky.social has proposed this @englishstudies.bsky.social special issue! One for SHARPists & scholars of bookselling across periods & Anglophone cultural contexts:
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Very happy @matthewchambers.bsky.social has proposed this @englishstudies.bsky.social special issue! One for SHARPists & scholars of bookselling across periods & Anglophone cultural contexts:
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Are you looking for spooky Gothic things to watch for Halloween? Here's a bunch of spoktacular Victorian films, TV series, and RPG campaigns for you! 🎃🎃🎃
New Blog post alert- 'Neo-Victorian Gothtober 2025' by Helena Esser. Some spooky neo-Vic gothic films and tv series recommendations for your Halloween watching pleasure! Read here: victorianpopularfiction.org/neo-victoria...
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Are you looking for spooky Gothic things to watch for Halloween? Here's a bunch of spoktacular Victorian films, TV series, and RPG campaigns for you! 🎃🎃🎃
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
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If you were teaching a module on NeoVictorian fiction what is the one Victorian novel you would want students to have read (if it had to be just one) as a useful/informing baseline of knowledge?
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you were teaching a module on NeoVictorian fiction what is the one Victorian novel you would want students to have read (if it had to be just one) as a useful/informing baseline of knowledge?
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@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Editor-in-Chief
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October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Just got a fascinatingly obscure bit of #Dickens ephemera (even for me!) in the post: Mr Pickwick in Timberland, with 14 drawings by Elias Kanarek, which was published by the Polish State Forests for Private Circulation in Christmas 1937👇. 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just got a fascinatingly obscure bit of #Dickens ephemera (even for me!) in the post: Mr Pickwick in Timberland, with 14 drawings by Elias Kanarek, which was published by the Polish State Forests for Private Circulation in Christmas 1937👇. 1/2
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Just one week until I get to chat with the inimitable @drbeard79.bsky.social about disability, care, and belonging in Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, and Walter Scott. Do come along if you can. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels'. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t...
Join us for our first EHU Nineteen seminar of 2025-2026.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just one week until I get to chat with the inimitable @drbeard79.bsky.social about disability, care, and belonging in Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, and Walter Scott. Do come along if you can. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
Peter Lang Verlag - Utopian Variations
Utopian Variations is a comparative critical study of a variety of kinds of utopia and utopian discourse. Rather than focusing on more familiar forms ...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
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Delighted to make available previously unknown (& unexpected) correspondence by poet #WHAuden to his Austrian lover & confidant, shedding new light on Auden's life in Austria & on Austrian queer history.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Delighted to make available previously unknown (& unexpected) correspondence by poet #WHAuden to his Austrian lover & confidant, shedding new light on Auden's life in Austria & on Austrian queer history.
www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/sens...
@fwf-at.bsky.social
@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
@oeaw.bsky.social
www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/sens...
@fwf-at.bsky.social
@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
@oeaw.bsky.social
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Our @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series starts next week with @drreznicek.bsky.social talking to me about care in Romantic novels - register in skeet below! Free, online, all welcome!
First up is:
29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Our @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series starts next week with @drreznicek.bsky.social talking to me about care in Romantic novels - register in skeet below! Free, online, all welcome!
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Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social
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The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the sloths, for today is their special day!
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the sloths, for today is their special day!
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
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The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
October 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
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Happy Birthday, Jane Morris (née Burden), born #otd 1839.
We're celebrating her life at the heart of the Victorian art world in our new exhibition, opening Nov 15th.
Including this portrait of Jane as 'Blanzifiore' by Rossetti & her little keepsake books too
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
We're celebrating her life at the heart of the Victorian art world in our new exhibition, opening Nov 15th.
Including this portrait of Jane as 'Blanzifiore' by Rossetti & her little keepsake books too
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
October 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Happy Birthday, Jane Morris (née Burden), born #otd 1839.
We're celebrating her life at the heart of the Victorian art world in our new exhibition, opening Nov 15th.
Including this portrait of Jane as 'Blanzifiore' by Rossetti & her little keepsake books too
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
We're celebrating her life at the heart of the Victorian art world in our new exhibition, opening Nov 15th.
Including this portrait of Jane as 'Blanzifiore' by Rossetti & her little keepsake books too
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
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The full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
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#JaneEyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847.
When it arrived on the Victorian stage, #CharlotteBrontë’s novel had a cast of new characters and a new social order.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
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When it arrived on the Victorian stage, #CharlotteBrontë’s novel had a cast of new characters and a new social order.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Jane Eyre Goes to the Theatre
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October 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#JaneEyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847.
When it arrived on the Victorian stage, #CharlotteBrontë’s novel had a cast of new characters and a new social order.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
When it arrived on the Victorian stage, #CharlotteBrontë’s novel had a cast of new characters and a new social order.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇
October 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇