Deidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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At Harvard, but not OF Harvard, writes abt the 18th & 19th centuries & abt books, their reading, & sometimes non-reading. At the OTHER sites w/ same handle
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund CrispinDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)Edmund Crispin seems to have been an admirer of Pope. I have read _The Moving Toyshop_, the title taken, of course, from The Rape of the Lock’s description of its coquette’s heart. The bk was kind of great, not least because, yes, the toyshop (& scene of the crime) actually MOVES
Paperback, 2018
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Severance
Ling MaDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@paulnadal_ Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate, Ling Ma’s Severance, Ali Smith’s Summer (because of the part of the novel centred on Brittany Hall, the character working in the migrant detention centre)
Paperback, 2019
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Gingerbread
Helen OyeyemiDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@paulnadal_ Also Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread , because of the child labour in the gingerbread factory
Paperback, 2020
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Seasonal Associate
Heike GeisslerDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@paulnadal_ Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate, Ling Ma’s Severance, Ali Smith’s Summer (because of the part of the novel centred on Brittany Hall, the character working in the migrant detention centre)
Paperback, 2018
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Asymmetry
Lisa HallidayDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@moekofujii The final part of Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry, written as an interview for “Desert Island discs.”
Paperback, 2018
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1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who Came up to London to "enjoy Themselves," and to see the Gr
George CruikshankDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)I have a lot of thoughts about The Queue™ —but will restrict myself to asking why it is, during all the press excitement about the crowds, nobody has recalled this George Cruikshank cartoon. A v. different occasion in 1851, of course, but the crowd behaviour seems similar. https://t.co/jBRgvfCUnU
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Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England
Adam KuperDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@alyssaharad There wasn’t a taboo. Good discussion of this, I recall, in Mary Jean Corbett, Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage & Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf (2008) & Adam Kuper, Incest & Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England (2009) Didn’t Darwin marry his cousin ?
Hardcover, 2009
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Mistress Masham's Repose
T. H. WhiteDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@elementaladam @Professor_Pop A cool idea! One *could* consider Doreann NĂ GhrĂofa’s _The Ghost in the Throat_ under this heading. (And though it’s technically children’s literature, T. H. White’s criminally underrated _Mistress Masham’s Repose_.)
Paperback, 2017
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Corinne: Or, Italy
StalDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@AnnaElizClark Germaine de Stael’s _Corinne, or Italy -, from 1807, great for tracing the transition to the mod idea of genius from older notions of the genius loci. Explicitly about the woman of genius and what will happen to her. (Spoiler alert : nothing good !)
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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress: Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wi
Daniel DefoeDeidre Lynch (with only one "r," really!)@Hazelthebulldog @WhoresofYore There were so many biographies at the time that a century ago Ernest Bernbaum published a book _The Mary Carleton Narratives: a missing chapter in the history of the English Novel_. She inspires Daniel Defoe’s Roxana, 1724. We could definitely use a new bio, though!
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