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Dr Ian McCormick Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Prof. Demeritus. M.A. Ph.D. Dark Academia. Class and Cloister: the St Andrews Correspondence https://t.co/JaaC8lKRnS

66 books
Book Cover for: Alec Forbes of Howglen: Vol. 3, George MacDonald

Alec Forbes of Howglen: Vol. 3

George MacDonald
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865): “Ye’ll easy fa’ in wi’ some lang-leggit bejan that’ll be prood to instruc’ ye” William Tennant, Anster Fair (1871): “Up from their mouldy books and tasks had sprung Bigent and Magistrand to try the game”. #scotlit #Scotland

Hardcover, 2022

$79.90$54.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

"fraught with hideous malignity" James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself (1824). #Gothic #TeamEnglish #ScotLit #engchat https://t.co/FsbpidYNAU

Paperback, 2010

$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

Lady Hunstanton: Are you going, Mrs. Allonby? Mrs. Allonby: Just as far as the conservatory. Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. ---Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (1893) https://t.co/755yHRszGP

Paperback, 2021

$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

Any suggestions for NEW TEXTS by women for #GCSE? Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: among the longest on set lists ... teachers were "disincentivised from choosing them over shorter, more accessible books" [by men] #teamenglish https://t.co/evjU9NhBKn

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

Any suggestions for NEW TEXTS by women for #GCSE? Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: among the longest on set lists ... teachers were "disincentivised from choosing them over shorter, more accessible books" [by men] #teamenglish https://t.co/evjU9NhBKn

Hardcover, 2018

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Paradise Lost, John Milton

Paradise Lost

John Milton
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

Love the way this research student has presented the frequency of light and dark words in John #Milton's PARADISE LOST. Literary analysis before the advent of computers! #TeamEnglish #17thcentury #poetry #vocabulary https://t.co/kCdzGrOj2F

Paperback, 2003

$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790, Ritchie Robertson

The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

Ritchie Robertson
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

Also read: Amy Clampitt's What the Light was Like. I'm planning to read Liam E. Semmler's The Early Modern Grotesque and Ritchie Robertson's The Enlightenment; David Fairer’s The Devil’s Cathedral. https://t.co/wn1ZDDchO2

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The World's Wife: Poems, Carol Ann Duffy

The World's Wife: Poems

Carol Ann Duffy
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

@DrNourrr @woodsgregory @chenchenwrites @Jay_Gao_ @maryjean_chan @AMcMillanPoet @VervePoetryFest Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan's anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Gregory Woods, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more. #poetry https://t.co/5XDjkj53G1

Paperback, 2001

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Three Lectures on English Literature, William S. McCornick

Three Lectures on English Literature

William S. McCornick
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

Sir William Symington McCormick, On the evils of HAVERIN magazine articles in "Three Lectures on English Literature" (1889) #TeamEnglish #ScotLit #StAndrews #Dundee #Glasgow https://t.co/Ua88up4UjU

Paperback, 2019

$24.50$12.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster
Dr Ian McCormickDr Ian McCormick

John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi " #Birmingham #theatre #drama #renaissance #EarlyModern #Jacobean #tragedy #17thCentury https://t.co/6sxn3Ey64V https://t.co/Gt3mQDQmbt

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