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9 Nov 2024
Bit of a surprise to see myself suddenly pop up on the feed. I have my eyes open in the rest of the video, honestly.
Whilst analysing the politics of A Christmas Carol, Dr Christopher Pittard looks to Dickens' other novels to highlight the authors wariness of revolution as a means of overcoming social inequality. Watch the course in full on MASSOLIT: eu1.hubs.ly/H0dBqvX0
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9 Nov 2024
This one was filmed in November 2020 when there were still restrictions on how many people could be in my office, which is why we're in a room in the university library instead. It had a very noisy air conditioning system.
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9 Nov 2024
Hoping the Jamie Oliver thing will maybe knock the whole 'celebrity novel' trend on the head, but it won't, will it?
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9 Nov 2024
To be honest, I don't understand the market for celebrity novels at all. Either it's written by somebody else, in which case why bother, or it's written by someone who is at best an amateur and not likely to be very good, so again, why bother?
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8 Nov 2024
Jamie Oliver must be furious with the author of ‘his’ children’s novel. theguardian.com/food/2024/no…
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8 Nov 2024
That song essentially meant the weekend was dead. They may as well have had “Theme from Bullseye” charting. #totp
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8 Nov 2024
The great thing about these #totp repeats on BBC4 is that they often follow two from 1996 with some from the 1970s, and then everyone in their mid-40s realises how short changed we were.
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8 Nov 2024
My original plan for tonight had been to see *The Substance* at @No6Cinema, but what had previously been lower back grumbles have suddenly turned into leg pains making it impossible to walk any distance at present. Undone by body horror; take a moment to digest the irony.
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5 Nov 2024
I didn't actually know this, but it bears out my argument that it is the best adaptation anyway because it's one of the few that realises that Dickens is meant to be funny rather than Heritage That Is Good For You.
4 Nov 2024
Did you know that A Muppet Christmas Carol contains more lines from Dicken’s original than most other versions?
And this alone is why it is by far the best version and a legitimate reason for me watching it with my year 10 class this year.
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7 Nov 2024
I mean, *obviously* I know it has a lot of Dickens' original lines, but I didn't know it came out ahead of most others.
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This interesting @BBCRadio4 prgm on #WilkieCollins includes Clues Editorial Bd member @CAPittard on Collins' _The Moonstone_.
2 Nov 2024
Thinking of reading some Wilkie Collins this autumn? Here I am talking to Matthew Sweet on @BBCRadio4 about some places to start. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tr6…
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6 Nov 2024
RT @lizabethswann: This is APPALLING. Deciding that English Lit degrees are “no longer viable in the current climate” is a disgrace - Engli…
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6 Nov 2024
America really doesn’t like women, does it?
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5 Nov 2024
The Muppet CC is also the only adaptation to fully understand the comic absurdity of the "who did NOT die" line.
5 Nov 2024
The grave and gravy line makes me lol and could easily have been written for the Muppets.
Always watch out for the kids under the Ghost of Christmas Present's robe. If they're there it's probably a good version.
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5 Nov 2024
Excited to announce our one-day online workshop on Ageing, Progress and Decline in the Victorian period on Fri 6 December. Join for papers on a range of topics by expert speakers - inc. a keynote by @jacob_jewusiak. Register via Eventbrite or email me: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-pr…
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5 Nov 2024
Just had a lovely seminar on Dickens' "The Signal-Man" on our UG Gothic module. Topics included the first two pages, 'perspective', does the hyphen in the title matter, and is it, in fact, proto-cybernetic horror? All in all, yet another excuse to post this image.
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5 Nov 2024
We concluded that 'Signalman' is a job title, whereas 'Signal-Man' is a technogothic man-machine cyborg, converted by means of a hyphen.
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4 Nov 2024
Robert Jenrick, someone who was banned from driving for going nearly 30mph *over* the speed limit, is the new Shadow Justice secretary? It’s amazing how the Conservatives have learnt absolutely nothing from July.
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4 Nov 2024
I see the local Christmas shopping village is opening on 9 November this year. Maybe I'm old fashioned but there should never be a situation where the Remembrance Day silence could potentially be interrupted by Noddy Holder.
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