CjDuffy

Inveterate scribbler

[Davy Notebooks Project @davynotebooks]

@SharonRuston is giving a talk called ‘From Humphry Davy to Frankenstein’ @ the University of Lund in Sweden on Wednesday 25th March.

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening...

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Come and read for a PhD in English literature with me and my wonderful colleagues at Lund University. Closing date 20 December 2025.

https://t.co/qhcNCNyijK

[Dr Anna Mercer @annamercer_]

Out next week: the Shelleys’ History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) for the first time in paperback with notes. Also includes an introduction, appendices, maps… just received my editor copies! Ed. by @VonDuffstein & myself for @OWC_Oxford. 📚

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

I'm not sure this was the intended purpose for this item...

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

@capulet32 🤣

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

A minor botanical - poetical mystery, still unresolved: why did Percy Shelley say he always thought of the 'fair Celandine/ As of a flower aery blue' in his 'Verses written on receiving a Celandine in a letter from England'?

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Cheese shopping for Easter. Wondering how much will survive until Easter.

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

From 1772 to 1783 Mary Delany made 985 intricate & botanically accurate floral mosaics out of paper. They were the precursors of the collage style of #art. In a letter to her niece, Mary said she had invented a new way of imitating flowers. #MythologyMonday

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

'me sweetest flowers delayed not long... but among/ The thickest billows of the living storm/ I plunged, and bared my bosom to the clime/ Of that cold light, whose airs, too soon deform' {PB Shelley).

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Early morning ferry crossing. Bound for Lund and three days of the SWESSE national forum at English Studies. Can only be great with great colleagues like @bannbarrow @MonikaClass @satu_manninen @jorunnjoiner

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

West coast of Ireland, east coast of Denmark, anemones. All changed, changed utterly...

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay! Read Michael Engelhard's essay "Darwin's Polar Bear" looking at the often overlooked role they played in the development of evolutionary theory: https://t.co/dfqhaFBl1C #polarbears

(Pictured: a circa 1808 etching by S. C. Miger.)

[Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance @CUP_LitPerform]

The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants by Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson
Elucidates the long history of plants in literature across global traditions, examining both literary form and cultural context.
📚 https://t.co/XNJ5DlMZlX
#europeanlit

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Windy on the Øresund today.

[Dr Jorunn Joiner @jorunnjoiner]

What will become of English studies? And what future does the study of Romanticism have?

Come an present a paper at the 2025 National Forum: "The future in and of English Studies". Currently accepting paper proposals for the panel "Romantic Futures"

https://t.co/BWcp7VXvMG

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Lund Christmas Trees 🎄

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Hello again Uppsala...

[CjDuffy @VonDuffstein]

Hello again Zagreb. Lovely to be back. Lectures on Coleridge and Keats for me today.

[Prof. Seda Arıkan @seda_arikan]

You are welcome to attend the 17th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, which will be held at Fırat University (Türkiye).
Abstract submissions are open.

https://t.co/OkXqLj6aji