Digital Highlights: “Letters From a Mourning City”

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If you’re a fan of the personal narrative, as I am, then any new one you find is an immediate treasure be it a collection of letters, autobiography, diary, or whatever. The 1887 Letters from a Mourning City, originally written in Swedish by the traveller Axel Munthe and translated into English by Maude V. White, is a fascinating travelogue of Munthe’s trip to Naples in 1884 during an outbreak of cholera in the city. Flip through… Continue reading

Our Reading List (#7)

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We haven’t done a reading whip ’round in awhile so here are some of the things catching our eye this week… From the Centre for Medical Humanities, a review of Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire by Dr Elena Burgos-Martínez From the Cost of Living blog, a piece by Mary Madden on Manufacturing Fictions: Gothic morality tales. An open invitation to join Digital Writing Month! Subhadra Das from the UCL Museums and Collections… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Getting Ready for All Hallows

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Halloween is only a week away, so in preparation, here are some of the texts we can offer on the ghostly and ghastly. Alfred Roffe’s 1851 An essay upon the ghost-belief of Shakespeare. John Henry Pepper’s 1890 The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis. Andrew Lang’s 1897 The book of dreams and ghosts. The 1864 Spectropia, or, Surprising spectral illusions : showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour : with sixteen illustrations.… Continue reading

Lectures and Conferences, and Panels, Oh My!

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I’m seeing lots of announcements for great events going by recently. Here are just a few of the highlights: From the h-madness blog, a call for papers for Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century (St Anne’s College, Oxford, 2016) From the Centre for Medical Humanities blog, a call for papers for “Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical Regeneration” Workshops (University of Leeds, January, April and June 2016) The Center for the History of… Continue reading