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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
New Literary History
Vol. 56, N0. 2, Spring 2025

Special Issue: Irish Keywords
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CONTRIBUTORS

Claire Connolly, James Chandler, Joe Cleary, Aileen Dillane, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Clara Tuite, Paige Reynolds, Jane Ohlmeyer, Barry McCrea, Clair Wills, and more
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW New Literary History Volume 56, Number 2, Spring 2025 
Special Issue: Irish Keywords CONTRIBUTORS
 Claire Connolly, James Chandler, Joe Cleary, Aileen Dillane, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Clara Tuite, Paige Reynolds, Jane Ohlmeyer, Margaret Kelleher, Barry McCrea, Clair Wills, Breandán Mac Suibhne, Josephine McDonagh, Sparky Booker, Heather Laird, Rory Rapple, Guy Beiner, Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Goff, Mary M. Burke, Finola O'Kane, Robert J. Savage, and Clíona Ó Gallchoir
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Very excited and honored to be doing an online book conversation about *Action without Hope* at @greenhouseuis.net next Monday, December 8th, at 10 am Eastern / 4 pm Central European — Zoom link below. Would be so psyched to see people there, if you can make it 🌿

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Nathan K. Hensley, Professor of English at Georgetown University (USA), will discuss his book Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (University of Chicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 8 December 2025, at 16:00 Central European / 10:00 Eastern. Zoom link: https://stavanger.zoom.us/j/61351916503?pwd=bn4WaobjC5WqEzWl8BnYVnVR8zL6Je.1 A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that is coming undone? Nathan Hensley turns to Victorian literature to uncover a prehistory of this deeply contemporary sense of powerlessness. For many in nineteenth-century Britain, their world seemed so scarred by human rapacity that restoring it seemed beyond the powers of any one individual. Like George Eliot’s characters in Middlemarch or the doomed lovers of Wuthering Heights, observers of the gathering carbon economy felt themselves ensnared by interlocked and broken systems. In the face of damage so vast and apparently irreversible, what could possibly be done? Book cover, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse, Nathan K Hensley [Detail of Turner watercolor showing wash of gray, blue, orange, yellow, and red]
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Free Palestine lit??? Free Palestine lit. 🇵🇸 🍉 📚 ✨
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Have you got a new book out about Irish America? Regardless of discipline, if it came out in 2025, you can submit it to the ACIS Lawrence McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America! You need to fill out the form on this website and the books need to be sent by 1 January!
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Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Larry McCaffrey, co-founder of ACIS, was a highly respected, engaging, and beloved teacher throughout his entire career. He served as the first Secretary of ACIS and was ACIS President from 1975 to…
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December 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
marymullen.bsky.social
A great time to get Novel Institutions, or Narrating Irish Female Development, or The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry, or Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature, and many others.
edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 10d
Get set! Our #StAndrewsDay sale is days away! Browse our books and top-up your shopping lists...

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November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt

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Hazel V. Carby · Remembering the Future
I am reminded of the first maps I saw as a child, hanging on the walls of British classrooms. Of course, the colour that...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children.

(From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad)
But so many will remember. We say that, sometimes, when it's our children killed: Remember. And it may seem now like it's someone else's children, but there's no such thing as someone else's children. The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one's opponent has descended while simultaneously digging ones own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.
May 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Take advantage of the conference discount <10NAVSA25> for 40% off until December 1!

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#readUP
uvapress.bsky.social UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 23d
The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference begins today! @navsa2025.bsky.social #NAVSA2025

Visit our virtual exhibit and use promo code <10NAVSA25> for 40% off through the end of the month!

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November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Looking forward to this book!!
claireconnolly.bsky.social Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 24d
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!

UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March

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Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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reviewed great collection on writers & new media in the 19C print culture sublime! ed and intro by alexis easley w essays by @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social & more!

in Review 19 --
www.review19.org/view_doc.php... & looking forward to talking about it at @navsa2025.bsky.social !!
BRITISH WRITERS, POPULAR LITERATURE AND NEW MEDIA INNOVATION, 1820-45 by Alexis Easley, ed., Reviewed by Sarah Allison
Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
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November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A timely roundtable at #NAVSA2025: "Victorianist Work After the University as We Knew It." A great conversation with Sarah Allison, Gordon Bigelow, Ruth McAdams, Rachel Sagner Buurma, & Kyoko Takanashi.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I look forward to celebrating NAVSA authors on Friday at the 7:00 pm reception sponsored by CUSP/ the empire/colonialism caucus @navsa2025.bsky.social. So many excellent books!
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NAVSA Book Party Authors (4).pdf
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November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Good morning Philly! Who has the power?
fsfccp.bsky.social Faculty and Staff Federation of CCP @fsfccp.bsky.social · Nov 1
Philly! On Friday, Nov. 7th at 12pm
Noon, join higher ed workers and students at 20th and Market to protest Senator McCormick’s co-signing of billionaire attacks on Higher Education in Pennsylvania. Despite writing a book about leadership, is nothing but a fool follower of bad actors.
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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This is happening in one week. Join Dean Spade for "Sticking Together in Tough Times," an online workshop benefitting the Wesam Water Project.

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November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Two of Riddell's (short) haunted house novels are collected in this edition by The British Library in their long-running Tales of the Weird series:
Cover of the British Library volume "Haunted Houses: Two Novels" by Charlotte Riddell, featuring an etching of a red spiral staircase viewed from the top down.
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Dr Miranda Melcher recently chatted with @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde!

Find out more here:
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October 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The House Must Win has been a long time coming—a stage adaptation of my first album, Evening Train, a story of love, lust, gambling, and betrayal. My debut as a scriptwriter has been a new and rewarding challenge. Tickets on sale Thursday. Pre-sale via mailing list tomorrow.
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The first look at a book cover is always so exciting (w/ @cookiegoth.bsky.social)
Cover image of Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland edited by Renee Fox and Mary L. Mullen
October 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM