Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Chris Louttit
We have a special bonus event! Join us on Weds 24th June at 6pm (BST) for a discussion with Hee-seung Irene Lee's about her recent book Film Adaptation and the Real.
The book is open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
DM for the zoom link if you're not on the mailing list!
Some interesting differences between the author/critic & reader top 100 novels. Readers seem more willing to include recent books - will Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead really stand the test of time like Madame Bovary? (They're tied at #63 in the list.)
🔊 New volume in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series is out!
'Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament. Selected Short Stories', edited by Valerie Fehlbaum
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Truly honoured to feature in the latest episode of @adaptationtoday.bsky.social. Thanks to my wonderful hosts @drgbain.bsky.social & @reraddatz.bsky.social
adaptationtoday.com/resources/po...
Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage global.oup.com/academic/pro...
📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 3: Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” (1901).
Colonial adventure novel about an orphaned Irish boy who meets a Tibetan lama in Lahore and together they are drawn into the “great game” of imperial espionage.
Nice shoes, babe.
Discovered by accident that there are several 'Dickenslaan' and 'Dickensstraat' around the Netherlands. Would be tempted to visit and take a silly photo of the street sign, but most of them are in bland suburbs where I tend not to go.
The Ruiners by Ellena Savage review - a playful and subversive take on Great Expectations:
(Amusingly there is also a Coldplaystraat in my town. Won't be going there!)
'Pioneering photography': early images of Newhaven's fishers - in pictures:
🚨RADICAL PRINT CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 🚨
The Programme is now live (see 🧵), and the symposium will also feature two amazing keynote speakers, a print exhibition and a handling workshop.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Chris Louttit
When David Hill and Robert Adamson captured the lives of a small Scottish community in the 1840s, were they creating the first ever social documentary series? A fascinating new book makes the case
📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 2: Henry James, 'The Turn of the Screw' (1898)
The novel is a #C19th gothic tale of a governess caring for 2 cherubic children who may or may not be in league with ghosts.
Also...that's a nut.
Dr Laura Eastlake
www.theguardian.com
After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped b...
