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The Official Twitter of CSUN's Eighteenth Century Scriveners.

[Eighteenth Century Scriveners CSUN @18thscrivscsun]

A fond farewell from me and a warm welcome to the new Scrivener board! I just want to say it's been a pleasure hosting this twitter. Now off to read these books that I just obtained from the #10DollarorLessBookstore. @RossBrummet signing off.

[Eighteenth Century Scriveners CSUN @18thscrivscsun]

Scrivener co-presidents @agprinzing and @RossBrummet after their MA hooding with scrivener advisor Dr. Danielle Spratt.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

As a Mary Shelley "scholar," obviously I'm happy that she is getting public media attention but I'm mainly disappointed that it is the same old reductive story being told. There is so much more to her than Frankenstein and I, for one, will be sitting this movie out.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

Mary Shelley IS a feminist icon to me, not because of the myth that she had to battle her way out of the patriarchy to get her book published but because she fostered strong intellectual partnerships with the men in her life and then persevered when she lost them.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

If you want to give me a Mary Shelley biopic, give me one that starts after Percy dies. Give me one that shows the complexities of her life/character rather than presenting her as a reductive trope. Give me one about the generative partnerships she had with people in her life.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

Movies like this one (or at least the movie that it seems to be based on the trailer) also boil Shelley's life down to those few years of Frankenstein and perpetuate the idea that nothing interesting, devastating, or exciting happened to her after this book.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

And these presentations of Shelley only writing Frankenstein because she was subjected to sexist treatment by her friends and family is actually anti-feminist imo, since Mary and Percy Shelley had, in reality, an incredibly equal intellectual and creative partnership.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

Although Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and especially Godwin were questionable figures who did things that we would label as sexist and problematic today, they did not, from what we can gather, oppress or question Mary Shelley or her intellectual and creative capabilities.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

Now, it might seem weird that I'm against presentations of Shelley as openly feminist but here is why: because it pushes the trope that she was consistently oppressed by the men around her and it was this oppression, and this oppression only, that sparked her creativity.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

Mary Shelley consistently and openly shared that she did not have the same radical feminist leanings as her mother and did not write her texts with those leanings in mind. Yes, obviously we find feminist messages in her works but to present her as a radical feminist is wrong.

[stevie edwards @stephanieadele_]

Alright, I've tried to hold off on writing my thoughts about the Mary Shelley movie but I've been seeing many hot takes about the trailer and there are a few things I need to say. Firstly, that this movie does everything I hate with Shelley's life story.

[The Byron Society of America @ByronSociety]

Certainly an important review to read: "To warp and twist those stories to present a narrative about the creation of Frankenstein which suits the director's idea of how great works are created is a misappropriation of their lives; put bluntly, it is a fraud on history - a lie." https://t.co/lhQGmtK4ix

[The Real Percy Bysshe Shelley @Shelley_at_224]

@ByronSociety Had a quite lengthy conversation on Twitter about this with Emily Morgan of Byron Society in UK. Truth is the pricipal casualty in this movie. The main victim actually being Mary - though Percy is presented as a drunkard and a child murderer. https://t.co/TczIaV1CHb

[The Real Percy Bysshe Shelley @Shelley_at_224]

@ByronSociety I say Mary because she is presented is a victim who returns to her abuser. This is by no means the story of her life. At all. The movie actually presents a sexist male trope of female authors - that they write only from personal experience. Here Frankenstein is presented as a

[The Real Percy Bysshe Shelley @Shelley_at_224]

@ByronSociety work of autobiography founded entirely on her heartache and troubles. You do not see the young woman well versed in the classics who, as Nora Crook once noted, read Tacitus in the original. Appalling.

[CECS (York) @CECSYork]

We're delighted to kick off our summer term seminar series tomorrow (Tuesday), when we'll be welcoming Jennifer Germann for a paper entitled "Seeing Black Women in Georgian England." We very much hope you can can join us - 4.30pm in King's Manor, K/G07!

[ASECS Office @ASECSOffice]

Call for Proposals - ASECS 2019 - 50th Anniversary Meeting - Denver, CO

The online form for proposing sessions may be accessed here: https://t.co/YKd5yf35LC. Deadline 15 May 2018!

If you have any questions, please contact the ASECS Business Office at [email protected].

[UWG English @uwgenglish]

Dr. Miller's digital humanities class brings all the 18th century archives to UWG's backyard.

ENGL6105, Fall 2018. Grad student? Be there.

[Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social @fraistat]

See Mary Wollstonecraft's last three notes to Godwin: https://t.co/iJ9gcywJgP