Great#Twain quote in this article about #HenryJames's #TurnOfTheScrew! https://lithub.com/why-the-turn-of-the-screw-haunts-us-125-years-later/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20June%205%2C%202023&utm_term=lithub_master_list #litstudies, #bookstodon, #gothic

If you're feeling guilty about your true crime obsession, take comfort in knowing that Henry James was wild about the stories collected in William Roughead's Classic Crimes—finding them an especially useful distraction while suffering from gout.

#HenryJames #gout #WilliamRoughead #TrueCrime

“But face to face with my correspondence, and with my age (a ‘certain,’ a very certain, age,) and some of its drawbacks, I am aware of the shrunken nature of my poor old shrunken energies of response in general (once fairly considerable) and hence in short this little delay.”

—Henry James to William Roughead in 1914, apologizing for taking so long to read Roughead's book and to send a letter of response

#henryjames #inboxzero #unansweredemail #williamroughead

“But face to face with my correspondence, and with my age (a “ certain,” a very certain, age,) and some of its drawbacks, I am aware of the shrunken nature of my poor old shrunken energies of response in general (once fairly considerable) and hence in short this little delay.”

—Henry James to William Roughead in 1914, apologizing for taking so long to read Roughead's book and to send a letter of response

#henryjames #inboxzero #unansweredemail #williamroughead

One more day to submit proposals for "Jamesian Space," a panel organized by the Henry James Society for the American Literature Association Annual Conference, to be held in Boston, MA May 25-28, 2023. Full details here!
https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/societies-call-for-papers/

#HenryJames #AmericanLiterature #ALA2023 #LitStudies @litstudies​

One more day to submit proposals for Jamesian Space," a panel organized by the Henry James Society for the American Literature Association Annual Conference, to be held in Boston, MA May 25-28, 2023. Full details here!
https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/societies-call-for-papers/

#HenryJames #AmericanLiterature #ALA2023 #LitStudies @litstudies​

#MLA23 is coming up quickly, and I'm especially looking forward to "WORK IN JAMES," sponsored by the #HenryJamesSociety and part of the Presidential theme, "Working Conditions." #HenryJames @litstudies

#MLA23 is coming up quickly, and I'm especially looking forward to "WORK IN JAMES," sponsored by the #HenryJamesSociety and part of the Presidential theme, "Working Conditions." #HenryJames @litstudies

#williamjames painting of brother #HenryJames at Gardner Museum. In profile like a Piero.

Just when I thought I couldn't be enjoying this Palais de Thé advent calendar any more, out pops #HenryJames with this gem from The Portrait of a Lady.

The Henry James Society invites abstracts for "Jamesian Space" American Literature Association Annual Conference Boston, MA May 25-28, 2023 Abstracts due Jan. 10. Full details here: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/societies-call-for-papers/

#HenryJames #AmericanLiterature #ALA2023 #LitStudies @litstudies

Look what showed up on my doorstep today! This was my project in AY 2020-2021, aka The Year (That Felt Like a Decade) of 100%Teaching and Meeting on Teams (All Teams, All the Time). Immersing myself in this other life helped me get through it. #HenryJames @litstudies Congrats and thanks to @gwzach

Only slight late, I submitted the book order for my spring capstone course, "The Afterlives of Texts." We're going to be reading three contemporary novels about or heavily influenced by 19thC writers alongside the 19thC texts that inform them. #LitStudies #Melville #Thoreau #HenryJames #C19

@litstudies, I was identified as someone who might make #Middlemarch jokes on this site, but can #HenryJames get ❤️ here too? (and w/o a bk about a 🐳 ?) Here's my girl Isabel Archer,

"What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had conceived the design of drawing her into a system in which he rather invidiously lived & moved. A certain instinct, not imperious, but persuasive, told her to resist--murmured to her that virtually she had a system and an orbit of her own."

I'm on a new instance so thought I should post a new #intro. I'm a professor specializing in #C19 US #literature with transatlantic crossings by way of #HenryJames and #Children'sLit. Since I'm on C18.masto now, I'll mention that I also work intermittently on William Williams's castaway novel, Mr. Penrose. Another thing I do is direct the #UniversityPress at my institution, which is strong in #philosophy, #theology, related branches of #medieval studies, and ethics-focused #humanities. Hi!

Some hashtags in place of the #introduction that I should have written when I joined but managed not to:-

#Opera #ClassicalMusic #Mozart #Verdi #Strauss #Literature #Proust #Racine #HenryJames #ClassicalPhilosophy #Aristotle #Stoicism #Europe #Germany (which I consider my second home, though Brexit now prevents me living there) #France #Film #Art #Sexuality #Gay #LGBTQ #Sussex (where I live) #TheSea (which I live by......)

Some hashtags in place of the #introduction that I should have written when I joined but managed not to:-

#Opera #ClassicalMusic #Mozart #Verdi #Strauss #Literature #Proust #Racine #HenryJames #ClassicalPhilosophy #Aristotle #Stoicism #Europe #Germany (which I consider my second home, though Brexit now prevents me living there) #France #Film #Art #Sexuality #Gay #LGBTQ #Sussex #TheSea

Some hashtags (perhaps too many) in place of the #introduction that I should have written when I joined but managed not to:-

#Opera
#ClassicalMusic
#Mozart
#Verdi
#Strauss
#Literature
#Proust
#Racine
#HenryJames
#ClassicalPhilosophy
#Aristotle
#Stoicism
#Europe
#Germany (which I look on as my second home, though Brexit now prevents me living there)
#France
#Film
#Art
#Sexuality
#Gay
#LGBTQ
#Sussex
#TheSea

@OwlBeSatReading
Recent Classic Lit first time or re-reads:

North and South #ElizabethGaskell

My Cousin Rachel #DaphneduMaurier

Dracula #BramStoker

The Turn of the Screw #HenryJames

Other recent new-to-me reads:

(absolutely adored and now obsessed) the Wolf Hall trilogy #HilaryMantel 

Beyond Black #HilaryMantel

The Stand #StephenKing

A Terrible Kindness #JoBrowningWroe

(loved) Lessons in Chemistry #BonnieGarmus

More in my bio - but I drink ALOT of coffee with my books ☕ ☕ 📚

@albinokid #MarcelProust #JeanRacine #HenryJames #AnneBronte
#FrankNorris #MikhailLermontov #FranzWerfel

(Just 7 is hard to do)

#Bookstodon