As the summer season departs at 1:19PM CT, there's still a chance to make a splash with issue 63.3 at the poolside. Whether you're relaxing by the pool or going for a cool swim, 63.3 is the ideal companion. Secure your copy and cherish the last hours of summer! @ricehumanities @hopkinspress

Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield on September 7, 1709, but, when England switched to the New Style calendar in 1752, Johnson took to celebrating his birthday on September 18. We're reading Nicholas Hudson's "Samuel Johnson, Urban Culture, and the Geography of Postfire London"(42.3, pp. 577-600).

Join us in celebrating Defoe's potential birthday by reading Ian Newman's "Property, History, and Identity in Defoe's Captain Singleton" (50.3, pp. 565-83). Newman argues that unlike the self-fashioning Robinson Crusoe, Singleton represents an identity beyond possessive individualism (p. 566).

📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, 63,3! 👉 shout out to @peterharringtonltd.bsky.social who we interviewed for this issue! Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/issue/55435

Belated Birthday Post 🎂 On August 9th, star of Jane Austen's Persuasion, turned 27 for the 217th time, and to celebrate, we're reading Emily Rohrbach's "Austen's Later Subjects" (44.4, pp. 737-52). For a probing look at some of Austen's most interesting work, visit SEL at Project MUSE!

SEL 63.3 summer issue is coming! A cite-worthy quote from one of our contributors Juliana Beykirch on embodiment in Aphra Behn's II Rover: “Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️

📖 Latest Book Review Live 📣 Taylin Nelson, a PhD candidate at Rice University, offers a thoughtful review of Kaori Nagai's "Imperial Beast Fables". Nelson finds Nagai's engagement in non-western perspectives accessible, compelling and interesting. To read, click the link in our bio 🤓

On Emily Brontë's 207th birthday, we're reading Kate Lawson's "Shirley, History after Wuthering Heights" (61.4 pp.623-39). arguing that Charlotte's novel Shirley acts as a spiritual and thematic successor to her sister's gothic masterpiece. #HBD

Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large. 📖 Book Reviews 🎙️ Interviews 📜 Archive Meditations 📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds Link in bio!

Before we had the Constitution, Shakespeare gave us the Drama. 🎭 Revisit the Drama 📚 Read Paul Olson’s article 💭 Reflect critically about how government emerges… SEL Spring 63.2 Issue is live now. Link in bio.

In their article for SEL 63.2 Kirsten Sandrock describes King Lear’s encounter with the storm as “a spinning movement toward globality” symbolizing his fall as nonlinear and spatially disruptive (197). Read more about Atlantic weather and temporalities in King Lear 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN

SEL 63.2 on the Willow Song 🎵 💡 "Rather than being straightforwardly somber, the Willow Song can also play to the audience as comic and parodic. Reading the Willow Song in this way completely reverses the standard reading of Othello act IV, scene iii..." buff.ly/ZT4osHN ‪@projectmuse.bsky.social‬

“The scene's erotic undertones, insofar as Edward places his head in the lap of another male intimate, yoke together queerness with the potentialities explored through his speech” (160). 👀 Read Emily King's article on Marlowe's play Edward II in our Spring 63.2 issue buff.ly/ZT4osHN

ICYMI 📣 Our Spring 2025 issue is live! Read Paul A. Olson's article about the construction of government in Shakespeare's Henry VI-Richard III plays in SEL 63.2 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN

It was such a delight to be interviewed for SEL: STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE journal @sel1500to1900.bsky.social and to speak about my career, educational background, and working @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/959893

📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, 63,2! Read about songs in early modern drama, queering history with Edward II, Shakespeare on government, and Atlantic weather in King Lear 👉 shout out to @freeburian.bsky.social who we interviewed for this issue! buff.ly/ZT4osHN

on this US tax day, SEL is revisiting David Glimp's essay on sovereignty in Shakespeare's plays & taxes as "a site at which people might ... lay claim to forms of agency and capacities to intervene in the governance of the realm" (SEL 58.1, p. 27) Read at @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

Belated #HBD to Andrew Marvell born 31 March 1621 🥳 Marvell wrote against the abuse of power and in favor of religious dissent, and his poetry is remembered for its politics as much as metaphysics. Read more in SEL's latest issue on ProjectMUSE buff.ly/gSJtxdc @hopkinspress.bsky.social

A most excellent time at RSA SAA in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 🪶 Looking for a sign to send that paper out for publication? This is it! SEL welcomes the opportunity to review your work: sel.rice.edu/submission-g...

Congratulations to SAA Award Winners #Shax2025 including Gavin Hollis’s “Trifling with Catastrophe in King Lear,” runner up for innovative article award, published in SEL 62.1. You can read the article and the whole themed issue, "World, Globe, Planet," for free right now @projectmuse.bsky.social

Happy RSA-SAA co-conference, to all who could join here in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 Looking forward to hearing great work in Renaissance, Early Modern, and Shakespeare studies 🪶 @saaupdates.bsky.social

🎉 Int'l Women's Day is 8 March & SEL is celebrating scholarship on gender, women's history, and women's literature across 400 years. Recent issues feature feminist bibliography, portrayal of maternal bodies & female erotics, analysis of feminine duty & women's experiences @hopkinspress.bsky.social

#HBD to Sir John Tenniel born #OTD 1820 🥳 Political cartoonist and illustrator, Tenniel is best remembered for his illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Thomas analyzes his illustrations of the hybrid creatures in wonderland (SEL 48.4) @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

👀 Did you see us on the RSA 2025 program? SEL is excited for the RSA/SAA conference in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 See you there Renaissance, Early Modern, and Shakespeare studies scholars 🪶 @saaupdates.bsky.social

Oh, hey, look who's prominently placed on the @saaupdates.bsky.social and RSA joint convention 2025 Boston program app @sel1500to1900.bsky.social 👀 We're very excited to hear your new work, colleagues in Renaissance, Early Modern, and Shakespeare studies! See you in Beantown!

"O Love, Love, Love! O withering might!" Happy #TennysonTuesday! In SEL 40.4 David G. Riede analyzes how Tennyson's use of melancholy "is itself a source of authority that draws ... upon an idiom of eroticized political imperialism" Read more @jstor.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

SEL has published our first issue of 2025! Please do check out its smart English Renaissance essays and one of our first features in the new Living Discourse Initiative---"SEL: The Interview" with Joel A. Klein, Curator at The Huntington. #AcademicSky @hopkinspress.bsky.social bit.ly/3QrWw97

📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Winter 2025 issue, 63,1! From early modern feminist bibliographic work to an interview with a curator at The Huntington, SEL's new issue on The English Renaissance has something for everyone 🎉 read now on ProjectMUSE https://buff.ly/4hRbzpa

belated HBD Charles Darwin 1809 🎉 Victorian lit is often studied in the context of Darwin: Trollope’s novels were "interpreted through Darwinian narrative" (Cameron); Ruskin writes in "response to Darwin’s botanical books" (Smith). See DarwinCorrespondenceProject on this caricature buff.ly/3QhrHE6

#HBD Charles Dickens born #OTD 1812 🥳 SEL is revisiting the study of realism in Dickens: Natarajan writes that "Dickens’s realism has had nearly as long a history as realism itself" (p. 761, SEL 60.4) &in our latest issue, Sanford Russell examines Dickens's lists (SEL 62.4) @projectmuse.bsky.social

#TBT What were scholars publishing in SEL 10 years ago? Our Winter 2015 issue contains work on early modern female readership, English Renaissance poetics and politics, Milton's appropriation of Spenser, Arabic translations of Milton, and more! Read on @projectmuse.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social

#OTD in 1649, King Charles I is executed in Whitehall, London. Scholars look to English literature and literary history for the event's impact on cultural production, the historical record, and those living through regicide and war. Read more in SEL on @projectmuse.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social

On this #ThomasHardyTuesday SEL is revisiting Megan Ward's article on The Woodlanders, realism, and Hardy's denial of nostalgic nature. Check it out in SEL 51.4 doi.org/10.1353/sel.... @projectmuse.bsky.social @megaplex.bsky.social

#otd in 1853 Brontë's Villette is published! @elishacohn.bsky.social writes that the novel "infamously makes social activity unrecognizable" emphasizing "scenes of withdrawal" (SEL 52.4) Kristen Pond reads "the ethical potential of Lucy's silence" (SEL 57.4) Read more in SEL @projectmuse.bsky.social

ICYMI 📣SEL is excited to announce our Living Discourse Initiative scaling out in 3 new features "SEL: The Interview" "SEL: The Exchange" & "SEL: The Roundtable." The Initiative focuses on timely thinking relevant to the study of English literature 1500-1900 👉Send proposals 300-500wds to [email protected]

#HBD to Lord Byron, born #OTD in 1788 🥳 Read about Byron in SEL's latest issue 62.4: in "How Disability (re)Invents Poetry" (Richman) & "Objects, Things, and Writing the Im/material in Byron" (Saglia) out now on @projectmuse.bsky.social Image c/o British Library 1560/4193 @hopkinspress.bsky.social

👇A great looking forum! Excited to see Rice's Carly Thomsen here🦉

Thanks to everyone who attended our reception at MLA and everyone who supports the work of SEL 🙌 Looking forward to a great year of scholarly work!

Tonight: Excited to see #mla25 folks at JOLIE on Julia St. at 7:30pm!

Headed to #mla25 in New Orleans? Come by our reception at bar JOLIE on 1/10/25. SEL will see you there! 🥳

Join us for #mla25 - visit our reception and awards celebration on Friday, 1/10/25, at bar JOLIE in NOLA, 7:30pm 🥂🎊

Does the new year have you thinking about the past, the future, memorialization? On this #ThomasGrayTuesday we're recalling Gray's use of elegy to comprehend, and be confounded by, our relation to history. Read now in SEL58,3 https://buff.ly/4fLfjGL @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Happy New Year 🎉 SEL is excited to share all we have planned for 2025. Will you be at #mla25 in New Orleans? Join us at JOLIE on 1/10/25, for our reception! See you there 🥳

Will you be at MLA 2025 in NOLA? If so, please join @sel1500to1900.bsky.social for our cash bar, awards ceremony, conversation, and small bites at JOLIE on Friday, Jan. 10th from 7:30-10:00 p.m. There will be SWAG, tasty food and drinks, and warm conversation, all made brighter by your presence 🥂🎉

So proud that we made this Top20 list! Thanks to all our readers and to folks at @hopkinspress.bsky.social for working hard to support our issues 🤗 We look forward to sharing more great work with you all!

New possibilities for journal articles at SEL. Very exciting!

📣 SEL is excited to announce our Living Discourse Initiative, scaling out in 3 new features: The Interview, The Exchange, & The Roundtable. The Initiative focuses on timely & field-leading thinking relevant to the study of English literature 1500-1900 👉Send proposals of 300-500wds to [email protected]

#OTD in 1859, 1st installment of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities is published! Tina Young Choi reads the novel for "how the transmission of historical knowledge shapes the present and future." What are the "ethics of official and alternate practices of recollection"? SEL 60.4 https://buff.ly/40ZV4Bd

Happy #miltonmonday! Today we're revisiting Bartolovich's reading of Paradise Lost on why "aspiring to totality as an ongoing collective process remains theoretically—and politically—necessary" (p. 22) from our World, Globe, Planet themed issue, SEL 62.1. Read on ProjectMUSE https://buff.ly/4hZeGM2

#HPB to George Eliot 🥳 born #OTD in 1819, Eliot wrote 7 novels, which SEL authors analyze for both their content and structure: read about the "yoke of resistless destiny" (Markovits 786) and "female life elevated to the status of epic" via epigraphs (Hall 808). Image c/o British Library, Ashley712