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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 17h

So excited for "A Study in Empire: How We Read Now" with brilliant colleagues Olivia Lingyi Xu, Jacob Romanow, Nasser Mufti, & Meghna Sapui at #NAVSA2025

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 17h

Morrison

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 1d

Wentworth fails to catch Louisa because, in his secret heart, he wants her to die

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 1d

Relying on it as an argument might be alienating and thus a strategic error but it doesn't follow from that that the moral judgment is wrong!

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 4d

A critique of the sociology of literature is itself an allegory of ITS conditions of etc

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 5d

where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 8d

Was it something that somebody said....

Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 10d

I think it'd be silly not count the five Simon & Garfunkel albums!

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 10d

Paul Simon Graceland

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 16d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d

79. American citizen.

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 19d

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Lovecraft Democrat @lovecraftdemocrat.bsky.social · 19d

Rooted cosmopolitanism vs rootless nationalism.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 22d

Northrop Frye: “Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is a remarkable document, but as a piece of Wordsworthian criticism nobody would give it more than about a B plus.”

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 22d

Jacques the Fatalist

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 22d

Chuck, Mary, Bill

*Lamb-Shelley-Wordsworth

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 22d

Northrop Frye: “Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is a remarkable document, but as a piece of Wordsworthian criticism nobody would give it more than about a B plus.”

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 23d

Victorian Network's special issue "Victorian Pedagogy" is out today, including my article "The Moralist Critic and the Student Activist: A Reconsideration"!

www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...

A prominent right-wing truism holds that there is something ‘Victorian’ about the aesthetic judgment of rising generations of the left; that, in the words of Coddling of the American Mind co-author Greg Lukianoff, campus activists echo ‘the thinking of the old Victorian censors.’ Without accepting these terms, I suggest that resistance to this discourse should spur Victorianists to reconsider certain habitual scholarly dismissals made on uncomfortably parallel grounds. For those of us who take seriously contemporary activists’ critiques, what might it mean to take seriously the Victorian moral criticism to which those critiques are persistently compared? In a cultural moment of hyper-alertness to what’s problematic about art, might we be able to better appreciate the conceptual work of certain much-maligned nineteenth-century strategies of aesthetic evaluation? Through presentist, methodologically-oriented readings of Lady Eastlake’s 1848 infamous attack on Jane Eyre in the Quarterly Review and F.R. Leavis’s The Great Tradition, I argue that a “moralist” method links nineteenth-century critics, scholarly Victorianists, and cultural activists, and that scholarly repression of this moralism opens the field up to right-wing cooptation and reactionary thought.

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 23d

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 25d

Shelley drove Byron nuts trying to "convert" him to Wordsworth! And then it (temporarily) worked! 😂

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 25d

Exceptionally clear-eyed about the stakes and future of literary studies as a practical shared enterprise—as the BWWA so often has been. Worth a read.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...

Project MUSE - Interview with Donelle Ruwe and Roxanne Eberle: Reflections on Thirty Years with the British Women Writers Association and the Future of Conference Organizing

muse.jhu.edu

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 27d

Hi, I'm Robert Frost, and you're listening to "The Golden Treasury" on W-ORD FM

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 28d

"The indigenization of language and culture…is irreducibly a colonial process, a radical innovation in the name of return to the origin." (Aamir Mufti)

Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 28d

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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