Carlisle Yingst
@ceyingst.bsky.social
researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
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Carlisle Yingst
@ceyingst.bsky.social
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my institutional email address imploded this morning - before it happened, i tried to broadcast more stable contact details to anyone who might not have them, but if for whatever reason you're here trying to figure out where to reach me, you can find that on my website: ceyingst.org/contact/
dear Penguin, hire more proofreaders
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
dear Penguin, hire more proofreaders
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🪡🧵: As a part of the Robinson special collections bequest scheme, I’m working on the diaries of Hilda Runciman, one of the first women members of parliament.
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🪡🧵: As a part of the Robinson special collections bequest scheme, I’m working on the diaries of Hilda Runciman, one of the first women members of parliament.
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
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I am grateful for any help to get closer to completeness, even if this is an impossible task. Do please send any and all suggestions!
Good News! The Old Edinburgh Club’s Bibliography site is being updated. It's an online ‘must visit’ to explore Edinburgh’s history, with works from the late 16th century to today. Check it out and tell us if anything else should be included.https://buff.ly/8gAkNs6
OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History - The Old Edinburgh Club
Explore the OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History, covering social, cultural, economic and architectural heritage in books, articles and dissertations
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November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I am grateful for any help to get closer to completeness, even if this is an impossible task. Do please send any and all suggestions!
just a slice* of my reading for the c18 novel section of the Year's Work in English Studies
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
just a slice* of my reading for the c18 novel section of the Year's Work in English Studies
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
i feel it, Francis
![from the Wikipedia for Francis Douce:
In 1811 Douce resigned from the British Museum citing a series of reasons that have become legendary in institutional circles. The letter is preserved in the Bodleian Library.[5] His list of complaints runs as follows:
The Nature of the constitution of the M[useum] altogether objectionable.
The coldness, even danger, in the frequenting the great house in winter.
The vastness of the business remaining to be done & continually flowing in.
The total impossibility of my individual efforts, limited, restrained & controlled as they are, to do any real, or at least much, good.
An apparent, & I believe real, system of espionage throughout the place & certainly a want of due respect towards and confidence in the officers.
The total absence of all aid in my department.
The apartments I reside in are dangerously cold in winter & like an oven in summer. The whole damp, especially the lower room where my books are in great jeopardy & which I never entered, even in summer time, without being sensibly affected with some kind of pain or unpleasant sensation.
The general unwholesomeness of the air from sinks, drains, the ill-contrived & filthy water closet; & most of all the large & excessively cold bed chamber with an opening to the back kitchen & all its damp & cellar like smells.
The want of society with the members, their habits wholly different & their manners far from fascinating & sometimes repulsive.
The want of power to do any good, & the difficulty to make the motley & often trifling committees sensible that they could do any.
The general pride & affected consequence of these committees.
Their assumption of power, that I think not vested in them.
The fiddle faddle requisition of incessant reports, the greatest part of which can inform them of nothing, or, when they do, of what they are generally incapable of understanding or fairly judging of.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hja5k4b3sr74s2yw63uddcfk/bafkreigvm46kmtdzmjupfghy52rrqxuwoniby5e3vji3jztj635itxomhi@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
i feel it, Francis
when does sex/gender a supposedly self-evident, "mere" "historical fact" to be recorded on documents, indeed
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
when does sex/gender a supposedly self-evident, "mere" "historical fact" to be recorded on documents, indeed
its the dust mites that add the flavor
I'm sorry what? I was born with these bay leaves and so help me god I'll die with these bay leaves
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
its the dust mites that add the flavor
to be fair the novel does pass the bechdel test - at least if you count Walton's recounting of Frankenstein's recounting of a conversation between Justine and Elizabeth about Justine being accused of a murder Frankenstein was ultimately responsible as being a conversation not about a man
*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
to be fair the novel does pass the bechdel test - at least if you count Walton's recounting of Frankenstein's recounting of a conversation between Justine and Elizabeth about Justine being accused of a murder Frankenstein was ultimately responsible as being a conversation not about a man
my favorite part of Duchovny's English lit career is that an XFiles character, who gets hit by a bus in the first minutes of the episode, shares a name with the prof who graded his Princeton thesis
Listening to David Duchovny‘s WTF ep and he was ABD English lit and then Maron goes
„You could be a tenured broke English professor having this conversation with a student and wonder why you didn‘t pursue acting“
Am I reverse Duchovny? But fictional Duchovny has tenure 😭😭😭
„You could be a tenured broke English professor having this conversation with a student and wonder why you didn‘t pursue acting“
Am I reverse Duchovny? But fictional Duchovny has tenure 😭😭😭
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
my favorite part of Duchovny's English lit career is that an XFiles character, who gets hit by a bus in the first minutes of the episode, shares a name with the prof who graded his Princeton thesis
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
bookshoplit.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
me, but story = argument
“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
me, but story = argument
one of those times i wish i had a library degree
We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
one of those times i wish i had a library degree
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I'm a big fan of the ts-dash, pioneered by Laurence Sterne:
November 13, 2024 at 10:27 AM
I'm a big fan of the ts-dash, pioneered by Laurence Sterne:
i have genuinely started reflexively spelling "complete" as "compleat" and that's how I know I'm a true 18th-centuryist
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
i have genuinely started reflexively spelling "complete" as "compleat" and that's how I know I'm a true 18th-centuryist
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Every time you say "actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist" you're just replicating his damnable act of disavowal and abandonment that drove his creation to murder but okay
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Every time you say "actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist" you're just replicating his damnable act of disavowal and abandonment that drove his creation to murder but okay
Anyone happen to have access to "The use and organisation of domestic space in late seventeenth-century London"?
The fact that Cambridge University is out here charging £35 to a current student to get a copy of an already-digitized thesis is wild to me.
Unrelated, if anyone knows Dr Jennifer D Melville or has a copy of her 1999 thesis they'd be willing to send on gender and space in 17c England...
Unrelated, if anyone knows Dr Jennifer D Melville or has a copy of her 1999 thesis they'd be willing to send on gender and space in 17c England...
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Anyone happen to have access to "The use and organisation of domestic space in late seventeenth-century London"?
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
the modern food industry's handling of allergens and cross-contamination--especially the proliferating use of lengthly 'may contain' labels listing almost every known allergen--is unacceptable and in dire need of reform
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the modern food industry's handling of allergens and cross-contamination--especially the proliferating use of lengthly 'may contain' labels listing almost every known allergen--is unacceptable and in dire need of reform
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Friends and colleagues! I am looking for suggestions for literature on failure. I know Halberstam, but anything else – from queer studies or not, will be welcome.
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Friends and colleagues! I am looking for suggestions for literature on failure. I know Halberstam, but anything else – from queer studies or not, will be welcome.
anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise
gotta love having to identify random objects in a set of obviously AI-generated images in order to prove you're sufficiently human to access research resources overrun by bots, which are presumably slamming the servers hosting said resources with attempts to scrape them for AI
September 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
gotta love having to identify random objects in a set of obviously AI-generated images in order to prove you're sufficiently human to access research resources overrun by bots, which are presumably slamming the servers hosting said resources with attempts to scrape them for AI
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Does anyone recognise this late Victorian periodical? Based on the page numbers this is obvs an article from a larger work but I can’t trace it anywhere. It’s got lots of full-page images & I’m confident for various reasons that it was produced in 1881.
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Does anyone recognise this late Victorian periodical? Based on the page numbers this is obvs an article from a larger work but I can’t trace it anywhere. It’s got lots of full-page images & I’m confident for various reasons that it was produced in 1881.
very lucky to have gotten an early look at this! ali smith readers & those interested in novels, serialisation, and the physical book in general, look out for this very soon -
Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
very lucky to have gotten an early look at this! ali smith readers & those interested in novels, serialisation, and the physical book in general, look out for this very soon -