Dr Ian McCormick Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr 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

Dr Ian McCormick

@StuHennigan I read Virginia Woolf's TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, followed by James Kelman's HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE. I recommend heterogeneous twinning! https://t.co/UcTKEgmRhh

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"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

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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

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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

Dr 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

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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

Dr 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

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@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

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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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