Happy #WalpoleWednesday 🎃 spooky edition feat. (from SEL 49.3) "Hamlet and Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto” by Robert Hamm. Read on Project MUSE bit.ly/3TTzuKm and JSTOR bit.ly/4eqRdRP

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay we're reading "Autumnal Affect in the Poetry of John Clare" (Cope, SEL 58.4) for those 🍂 fall feels. Find the article Project MUSE bit.ly/4eS0Fxt and JSTOR bit.ly/3TP7ffN & more Clare poems Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3Y7JoL6

This #NationalPoetryDay the counting question we're asking is about annotations: how many are tolerable? what poetic ideas are divisible or "indivisible"? For example, see Eardley on early modern women's poetry and Hester Pulter's "Indivisibles" (SEL 52,1) bit.ly/3ZKs3ZT

Happy #FrankensteinFriday! 🧟 🧑‍🔬 Harriet Hustis analyzes the revision of masculinist creation & patriarchal authority in "Responsible Creativity and the "Modernity" of Mary Shelley's Prometheus" (SEL 43.4) Project MUSE bit.ly/3U1imCA and JSTOR bit.ly/3BBG2qK

Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde! Born #OTD 1854, Wilde's early connections to folklore and the church shape his social and political writings: see Jones on Wilde's Fairy Tales (51,4) or McQueen on his Catholic Aesthetics (SEL 57,4) Portrait courtesy British Library 10803.h.9 vol2

this #FreakyFriday we're going Victorian Gothic 🪦 and re-reading Chavez's "The Gothic Heart of Victorian Serial Fiction"🫀(SEL 50.4) read Project MUSE bit.ly/4dGmoHy Pickwick graveyard illustration c/o British Library (C.58.f.20 facing p. 301)

Happy 240th Birthday Leigh Hunt 🥳 born #OTD in 1784, Hunt was a poet, essayist & critic in British Romanticism. Friend to Keats, Shelley, and Byron, Hunt's home is an important scene for Keats, Mulrooney explains in "Keats's '1817' Occasions" (SEL 59.4) bit.ly/3BInJAx

Happy BDay, Coleridge! Born #OTD 1772, Coleridge is known for the albatross of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Garcia highlights a different image that haunted his Englishness: the Indian banyan tree (SEL 57,4) Project MUSE buff.ly/3YxWVfg Image: British Library C.126.c.10

📣 SEL announces a NEW award for Early Career Scholars! The inaugural ECS award will be presented at SEL's MLA reception in January for an essay published in vol. 62 ‼️ stay tuned and continue to send us your work for consideration 👉 submission info bit.ly/409MeAE

this #FreakyFriday nothing's scarier than 🫣 patriarchy! In "Madness and Matrimony in Frances Burney's Cecilia"(SEL 55.3) Meghan Jordan reads Cecilia's breakdown as an effect of the precarious place of women under patriarchal order 😱 read now Project MUSE bit.ly/4fkg9KE

#OTD in 1849, Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley is published. Kate Lawson reads the novel as a sequel not to Wuthering Heights but to the historical narrative of Yorkshire, a history of labor and struggle. Read on in SEL 61.4 Project MUSE bit.ly/3A350iF

Happy BDay Boswell 🎉 Born #OTD in1740 Scotland, James Boswell was friend to Samuel Johnson and author of his own writings. Taylor Walle writes about Boswell's "Dictionary of the Scots Language" and its focus on the vernacular Scots (SEL 60.3) Project MUSE bit.ly/40hNWA2

Happy BDay John Keats! 🥀 Born #OTD 1795, SEL celebrates Halloween with Mulrooney's article on Keats’s first volume, which he argues, stages a profound commitment to poetry’s investment in the imaginative concept of the occasion. Read now @ProjectMuse bit.ly/3BInJAx

📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue, 62,4! Keep an eye out as we highlight contributors over the coming weeks. 🎉 Access the entire issue on the Nineteenth Century Project MUSE bit.ly/48EXUxp

🎉 Congratulations to Ellen Truxaw Bistline, who is awarded SEL's volume 61 Monroe Kirk Spears Award for her article "Realism, Initially"! See the award announcement in SEL's newest issue (62.4) bit.ly/4fFLnME & read "Realism, Initially" Project MUSE bit.ly/4hJ8aJo

Did you miss the release of SEL's newest issue, 62.4? 👀 Check out the entire issue on the Nineteenth Century Project MUSE bit.ly/48EXUxp and watch this space as we highlight contributors!

How does disability (re)invent poetry in the long eighteenth century? Jared S. Richman's article in SEL 62.4 asks this question, drawing on writers from Alexander Pope to Lord Byron. Read Project MUSE bit.ly/3O73xv4 (Image: Artstor)

In "'So Many Friends!': Gregariousness and Its Discontents in Jane Austen," Michael Greaney provides a new reading of friendship across Austen's fiction. Out now in SEL 62.4 Project MUSE bit.ly/3YORRlx (Sense&Sensibility illustration c/o British Library 012624.g.5)

#thankfulthursday SEL is grateful for our contributors! Anyone who has found a home for their work at SEL, we thank you! Future contributors: SEL invites anyone, any stage of their careers to submit & we welcome work from historically excluded perspectives bit.ly/409MeAE

SEL is so thankful for our university, everyone who assists our production, our staff, reviewers, editorial board, readers, and authors. We love our community and will continue to celebrate your work & scholarship, just on different platforms🦋📸 We'll see you there 🪶