Started this on the train today and have struggled to put it down. Fungi...mysterious, useful, a little bit terrifying but also absolutely fascinating. Great book thoroughly recommended.
Another year of the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship kicks off, aiming to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication. More details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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Absolutely lovely review of Susan Allen Ford's wonderful 'What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)' in The Conversation: theconversation.com/jane-austens...www.bloomsbury.com/what-jane-au...
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Excited to announce a new series from Bloomsbury: 'The Blue Humanities', ed. Steve Mentz and Serpil Oppermann! Accepting submissions for monographs and edited collections now, so send us your watery musings! Details on the flyer and our webpage: bit.ly/4bQHlyG
Lovely review in the Journal of Medical Humanities of Stuart Murray's wonderful book 'Medical Humanities and Disability Studies'. Glowing summing up below! Grab your paperback copy for less than £15/$18 here: www.bloomsbury.com/medical-huma...
Out now: 'Health Humanities in German Studies' comprehensively surveys the critical terrain of the intersection of these two fields & explores future directions that they may take. A must-read for those interested in German Studies or the medical/health humanities www.bloomsbury.com/health-human...
The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars…
Just another quick plug for the fabulous 'Jane Austen and Lord Byron' as reviewed in the TLS (bit.ly/3zjlthWwww.nybooks.com/articles/202...www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jane-aust...
There is one direct reference to Lord Byron in Jane Austen’s surviving correspondence, when she writes to her sister, Cassandra, on March 5, 1814: “I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have...