Stoked that Louis Bayard, author of The Pale Blue Eye, has a novel coming out about Oscar Wilde and his wife. I had no idea Wilde was married and had two sons! THE WILDES: A NOVEL IN FIVE ACTS will be released September 17 by Algonquin and Hachette. #OscarWilde#bookstodon#fiction@bookstodon
Gothic Warnings: Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, & the Anthropocene
29 Nov, University of Aberdeen, & online. Free
Dr Emily Alder reconsiders these famous #Gothic works in light of the #Anthropocene, a concept used to describe the impact of human activities on Earth systems & in which the #Victorian period is deeply implicated