Gerard McKeever
@mckeever.bsky.social
Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
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Gerard McKeever
@mckeever.bsky.social
· Nov 15
My new book is out in the world! It advocates a new, regional way of thinking about Scottish literature and Romanticism. It’s been a labour of love that’s seen me through two babies and a global pandemic, can’t wait to hear what people take from it 🙏 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”
#C19th #romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...
#C19th #romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...
Dr Gerard McKeever - Scotch Novels
YouTube video by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club
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September 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”
#C19th #romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...
#C19th #romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...
Huge congrats to the wonderful @cleoocy.bsky.social who passed her viva today with no corrections!
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Huge congrats to the wonderful @cleoocy.bsky.social who passed her viva today with no corrections!
Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time in about ten years. Holy mackerel, what an unbelievable film. Had forgotten quite how unhinged Day-Lewis’s character is.
August 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time in about ten years. Holy mackerel, what an unbelievable film. Had forgotten quite how unhinged Day-Lewis’s character is.
Went on a holiday and it was totally awesome
July 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Went on a holiday and it was totally awesome
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IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
I like the Pope, the Pope says nope
pope leo speaks on the risks children face from using ai, saying he’s concerned about “the possible consequences of the use of ai on their intellectual and neurological development.”
“access to data, however extensive, must not be confused with intelligence” he said.
“access to data, however extensive, must not be confused with intelligence” he said.
June 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I like the Pope, the Pope says nope
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The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award
Deadline 1st June 2025
The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500.
More information and how to apply:
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
Deadline 1st June 2025
The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500.
More information and how to apply:
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
May 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award
Deadline 1st June 2025
The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500.
More information and how to apply:
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
Deadline 1st June 2025
The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500.
More information and how to apply:
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.
May 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.
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3/3 Only at the very end of this rehearsal of the lore do we get to the real basis of the problems here:
May 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
3/3 Only at the very end of this rehearsal of the lore do we get to the real basis of the problems here:
Email I received from a senior colleague at Berkeley this week opened ‘Greetings from the anarcho-neofascist hellscape!’ … thoughts are with everyone in the US 🙏
April 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Email I received from a senior colleague at Berkeley this week opened ‘Greetings from the anarcho-neofascist hellscape!’ … thoughts are with everyone in the US 🙏
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A new Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog (@bars.bsky.social) - @mckeever.bsky.social on his new monograph, Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5944.
Five Questions: Gerard McKeever on Regional Romanticism – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A new Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog (@bars.bsky.social) - @mckeever.bsky.social on his new monograph, Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5944.
🔥🔥🔥 Some much needed good news at last!: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: 9781594206108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation busines...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Some much needed good news at last!: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...
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It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!
April 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!
Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!
Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you!
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
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Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Full and Final Edition Now Available
News article - 24 February 2025
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
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“I have no doubt most of you feel that the on-going genocide is wrong, I likewise have no doubt each of you feel you did the best that you could (at the MLA, or elsewhere).” Please read @palumboliu.bsky.social’s open letter relinquishing his lifetime MLA membership.
academeblog.org/2025/02/05/r...
academeblog.org/2025/02/05/r...
Resignation Letter from the Modern Language Association (David Palumbo-Liu)
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH As readers are no doubt aware, the problem of undemocratic professional associations is coming more and more to the fore as members attempt to hold their scholarly and profe…
academeblog.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“I have no doubt most of you feel that the on-going genocide is wrong, I likewise have no doubt each of you feel you did the best that you could (at the MLA, or elsewhere).” Please read @palumboliu.bsky.social’s open letter relinquishing his lifetime MLA membership.
academeblog.org/2025/02/05/r...
academeblog.org/2025/02/05/r...
I’m collecting literary maps relating to Scotland for a thing. A few examples here. If anyone has suggestions for others, I’d love to hear them 🙏
January 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I’m collecting literary maps relating to Scotland for a thing. A few examples here. If anyone has suggestions for others, I’d love to hear them 🙏
Spare a thought for the Burns scholar on Burns night, wincing in the corner with his precious little facts.
January 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Spare a thought for the Burns scholar on Burns night, wincing in the corner with his precious little facts.
Truly among the worst things about living in the British countryside is the regular encounters with aggressive dogs, off the lead, frequently with the owner nowhere in sight.
When (if) owner appears, they invariably expect you to adopt a fondly understanding attitude to their terrifying pet.
When (if) owner appears, they invariably expect you to adopt a fondly understanding attitude to their terrifying pet.
January 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Truly among the worst things about living in the British countryside is the regular encounters with aggressive dogs, off the lead, frequently with the owner nowhere in sight.
When (if) owner appears, they invariably expect you to adopt a fondly understanding attitude to their terrifying pet.
When (if) owner appears, they invariably expect you to adopt a fondly understanding attitude to their terrifying pet.
Does anyone know of book history/bibliographical work that imagines books as actors in the terms of actor-network theory?
January 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Does anyone know of book history/bibliographical work that imagines books as actors in the terms of actor-network theory?
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing literary scholars that a 35-year-ish Romantic Period is somehow equivalent to the whole of other centuries, and like 1,000 years of medieval history.
January 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing literary scholars that a 35-year-ish Romantic Period is somehow equivalent to the whole of other centuries, and like 1,000 years of medieval history.