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

Alec Forbes of Howglen: Vol. 3
George MacDonald
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)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg
"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
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
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
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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
Paradise Lost
John Milton
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
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
Ritchie Robertson
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
The World's Wife: Poems
Carol Ann Duffy
@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
Three Lectures on English Literature
William S. McCornick
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
The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster
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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