Dale Townshend
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
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It’s a curse, isn’t it?
Don’t tell me not to ‘overthink’ it. I’m an academic. Overthinking is LITCHERILLY my job. 😠 😠
That too! Hot-desk killing.
Dreadful novel 😂 And the Episodes of Vathek are even worse!
Great! I’ve been working on him, too. He’s absolutely fascinating! Terrible handwriting, though. 😭
Bit niche, this, but we Romantic and 19-c scholars need to think more abt Thomas Noon Talfourd. Crucial player in the construction of ‘Romanticism’; friend of Mitford, Lamb, Hazlitt, Browning & Dickens; editor; biographer; innovator in copyright laws, etc and all-round good egg. 👍