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Sarah Allison

@sarahdallison.bsky.social

English & DH in New Orleans-- new book out on celebrity authorship, 19C print culture, antislavery: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship/9780231209717/

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Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy 283rd birthday, Anna Letitia Barbauld! Here, from 1795, is her at once funny, domestic, and sublime poem "Inscription for an Ice-House," offered in honour of her day, and also as a reminder to my UK friends who are anticipating a heat wave. Do consider putting ice in your drinks please!

Inscription for an Ice-House Stranger, approach! within this iron door Thrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneath That vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confined By man, the great magician, who controuls Fire, earth and air, and genii of the storm, And bends the most remote and opposite things To do him service and perform his will,— A giant sits; stern Winter; here he piles, While summer glows around, and southern gales Dissolve the fainting world, his treasured snows Within the rugged cave.—Stranger, approach! He will not cramp thy limbs with sudden age, Nor wither with his touch the coyest flower That decks thy scented hair. Indignant here, Like fettered Sampson when his might was spent In puny feats to glad the festive halls Of Gaza's wealthy sons; or he who sat Midst laughing girls submiss, and patient twirled The slender spindle in his sinewy grasp; The rugged power, fair Pleasure's minister, Exerts his art to deck the genial board; Congeals the melting peach, the nectarine smooth, Burnished and glowing from the sunny wall: Darts sudden frost into the crimson veins Of the moist berry; moulds the sugared hail: Cools with his icy breath our flowing cups; Or gives to the fresh dairy's nectared bowls A quicker zest. Sullen he plies his task, And on his shaking fingers counts the weeks Of lingering Summer, mindful of his hour To rush in whirlwinds forth, and rule the year.Bild
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And here from the early #19thc, & Jane Austen's era--which, let's face it, not enough of us associate with collage--please see a page-spread created ca. 1821 by Miss Mary Watson & her friend Miss Ross (for an album now in the Special Collections Library at Manchester Metropolitan University).

Open book formed of blue sugar paper, with multiple clippings, mainly of print, though there is one bit of handwriting arrayed at various angles across the page. It also incorporated pasted in heads of female figures, maybe scavenged from fashion plates. If you look really closely you do find the clipped out words "Miss Watson" The biggest print comes at the top of the left-hand page: "On Friday Evening" in big bold type.
Sarah Allison@sarahdallison.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

review19.org

Lee Konstantinou@lkonstan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I have for several years been obsessed with so-called PKM tools -- it's what I play with instead of Being Productive -- and I think I've finally found an actual long-term winner with the db version of logseq (which is still not formally released).

George Eliot@georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The grey stone walls, the broken country, the meagre trees, seemed to be telling him afresh the story of that painful past which he knew so well by heart. But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Sarah Allison@sarahdallison.bsky.social · 11mo ago

for real and for true, the RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP is out!! The code CUP20 will get you 20% through the Columbia University Press website; let me know if you are dying to read it but need a presentation copy from the author, who is very excited about it------!! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...

The Rise of Celebrity Authorship | Columbia University Press

Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, ... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

Dorothy Berry@dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

Book cover. The top of the image is covered in overlapping black&white and sepia photographs of Black pas from the early to mid 20th century. Below that, against a seafoam green or robin's egg blue (depends on your view I suppose!), the book's title "The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is printed in black. There is a small white rectangle inset that reads "Dorothy Berry"
we here®️@wehere.bsky.social · 12mo ago

welcome home, we here press ❤️‍🔥 we're honored that our inaugural project will be to publish @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's ***the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities*** coming october 2025 www.weherepress.org