Daniel Cook
@profdanielcook.bsky.social
Associate Dean and Professor, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press, tbc) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market…
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!
Reposted by Daniel Cook
Read Scott’s “The Two Drovers” in this free ebook, AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME: Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social – featuring
🪞 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
🐮🗡️ The Two Drovers
🐒🔥😈 Wandering Willie’s Tale
💙📚
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🪞 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
🐮🗡️ The Two Drovers
🐒🔥😈 Wandering Willie’s Tale
💙📚
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As It Was Told to Me
Introduction by Daniel Cook By: Association for Scottish Literature, 2021 Published in: PDF, ePUB and Mobi Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Read Scott’s “The Two Drovers” in this free ebook, AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME: Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social – featuring
🪞 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
🐮🗡️ The Two Drovers
🐒🔥😈 Wandering Willie’s Tale
💙📚
3/3
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🪞 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
🐮🗡️ The Two Drovers
🐒🔥😈 Wandering Willie’s Tale
💙📚
3/3
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Reposted by Daniel Cook
You can read “Wandering Willie’s Tale”, along with two other short stories by Walter Scott – “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror” & “The Two Drovers” – in our free ebook AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social
💙📚
asls.org.uk/publications...
💙📚
asls.org.uk/publications...
As It Was Told to Me
Introduction by Daniel Cook By: Association for Scottish Literature, 2021 Published in: PDF, ePUB and Mobi Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists…
asls.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
You can read “Wandering Willie’s Tale”, along with two other short stories by Walter Scott – “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror” & “The Two Drovers” – in our free ebook AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME, introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social
💙📚
asls.org.uk/publications...
💙📚
asls.org.uk/publications...
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
September 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...
Gulliver’s Afterlives
The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyag…
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September 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...
Reposted by Daniel Cook
“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”
@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...
@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...
Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition | National Library of Scotland
Explore the profound impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on literature and culture.
www.nls.uk
August 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”
@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...
@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Orwell's Animal Farm was first published #otd 80 years ago
Orwell's Animal Farm was first published #otd 80 years ago
August 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Orwell's Animal Farm was first published #otd 80 years ago
Orwell's Animal Farm was first published #otd 80 years ago
“And what I write I cast upon the stream, / To swim or sink - I have had at least my dream.”
- Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (Canto XIV)
- Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (Canto XIV)
August 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“And what I write I cast upon the stream, / To swim or sink - I have had at least my dream.”
- Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (Canto XIV)
- Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (Canto XIV)
“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
July 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?
July 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?
Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.
July 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
June 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
I’ll be spending the rest of this blissful morning in the National Library of Scotland, followed by my first ever trip to the Royal Society of Edinburgh this afternoon 🚆📚
May 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I’ll be spending the rest of this blissful morning in the National Library of Scotland, followed by my first ever trip to the Royal Society of Edinburgh this afternoon 🚆📚
I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.
As Dundee is a city of creativity and design our Humanities team is launching a brand-new Taught Postgraduate course this September: Writing for the Creative Economies (MLitt, part time). For more information and to apply visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate....
Spread the word, mes amis!
Spread the word, mes amis!
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
As Dundee is a city of creativity and design our Humanities team is launching a brand-new Taught Postgraduate course this September: Writing for the Creative Economies (MLitt, part time). For more information and to apply visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate....
Spread the word, mes amis!
Spread the word, mes amis!
Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.
March 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.
“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
Jonathan Swift
#StPatricksDay
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
Jonathan Swift
#StPatricksDay
March 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
Jonathan Swift
#StPatricksDay
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
Jonathan Swift
#StPatricksDay
“Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life’, that we may live.”
Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)
Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life’, that we may live.”
Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)
Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)