We are delighted to announce that @emilieslaurent.bsky.social will meet us for a session Vernon Lee tomorrow, May 12 at 7 pm IST. We are deeply grateful for this.

We are overjoyed and deeply grateful to announce that our next online reading session will be chaired by Dr. Octavia Cox on 23 April at 7:30 pm IST. We will be discussing Jane Austen's seminal 'Emma'.

We had a fascinating online reading with Dr. @nishipulugurtha.bsky.social on 4 April. Dr. Pulugurtha conversed on the tempestuous life and times of S. T. Coleridge and shared valuable insights on the Gothic, ecological strains in his oeuvre and a lot more!

We are grateful to able to host Dr. @nishipulugurtha.bsky.social, author and Associate Professor at Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College for a fascinating in-person session on Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 1 March, 2025 from 3-5 pm at the wonderful Seagull Books, Kolkata.

We had a fantastic and academically enriching reading session with Dr. Emma Davenport of Emory University yesterday. We are grateful to Dr. Davenport for sharing with us her fascinating interdisciplinary work on Victorian literature, law and history.

Excited to announce an amazing online session coming up tomorrow on 21 February 7 pm IST (1:30 pm GMT) with Dr. Emma Davenport of Emory University about conducting research in Victorian Studies.

Very excited to announce the launch of our YouTube channel. The recordings of the online and the offline sessions will be made available here. Please spread the word, subscribe and "comment" on the videos to engage in the discussions. Here's the link: www.youtube.com/@NineteenthC...

Yesterday we had an amazing evening discussing online Steven Knight's 2019 adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol', ideas about adaptation, the social and psychological trauma laid bare by the Gothic medium, about Christmas traditions in the UK with Dr. Derek Johnston. Many thanks to sir.

A very happy new year to everyone from NCRC. Looking forward to an academically-productive year and best wishes everyone! We have fantastic reading sessions, screenings and a lot more planned in 2025. Please stay tuned for updates here. Happy reading!

Next we have a fascinating discussion with Dr. Derek Johnston, Queen's University of Belfast, on Steven Knight's 2019 adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol', ideas of adaptation, and Christmas traditions in the UK. This online reading will be on 9 January, 2025 7 pm IST/1:30 pm GMT.

We had our first offline NCRC session, led by Dr. Subhashree Basu on 21 December, and it was an enriching afternoon of discussion on Washington Irving at Seagull Books, Kolkata. The discussion was followed by a lively Q/A, and deliberations on the contours of Romanticism.

An amazing evening with the NCRC on 31 October, 2024 celebrating John Keats's 229th anniversary. A session of lively discussion of some of his poems like 'Lamia', La Belle Dame sans Merci', 'Mrs. Reynold's Cat' and 'Ode on Melancholy.'

The first JUDE NCRC reading session was chaired by Emeritus Professor Jon Cook, University of East Anglia. Prof. Cook delved deep into the life and times of William Hazlitt, and read with us Hazlitt's fantastic essay "On Living to One's Self" from 'Table-Talk' (1821).

Hello Bluesky! We at the NCRC read Nineteenth Century literature and are students of the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. A lot exciting stuff happens here, ranging from online, offline reading sessions with renowned experts, film screenings and much more. Happy reading!