Michael J Sullivan
@michaeljsullivan.bsky.social
Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson.
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Recovery of Literary Manuscripts
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Enjoyed filming this video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts and our multispectral work on Tennyson and the Shelley Circle. Many thanks to the video team at the University of Oxford! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIq...
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Enjoyed filming this video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts and our multispectral work on Tennyson and the Shelley Circle. Many thanks to the video team at the University of Oxford! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIq...
@ox.ac.uk
@engfac.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@engfac.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
Recovery of Literary Manuscripts
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Enjoyed filming this video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts and our multispectral work on Tennyson and the Shelley Circle. Many thanks to the video team at the University of Oxford! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIq...
@ox.ac.uk
@engfac.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@engfac.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
Fantastic to welcome the new @engfac.bsky.social Master’s groups this year and to begin the course in Material Texts! Wishing you all the best for the year ahead!
October 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Fantastic to welcome the new @engfac.bsky.social Master’s groups this year and to begin the course in Material Texts! Wishing you all the best for the year ahead!
Really enjoyed opening this year’s Tennyson Talks last week, and to see the vibrant international audience the Zoom series is bringing together. #Tennyson #Victorian @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social
SAVE THE DATE for the 2025-26 Tennyson Talks on Zoom. To sign up for links to each talk contact Prof. Valerie Purton at [email protected]
October 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Really enjoyed opening this year’s Tennyson Talks last week, and to see the vibrant international audience the Zoom series is bringing together. #Tennyson #Victorian @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social
Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
Excited to have begun a new role for this year leading the courses in material texts for the Oxford Master’s strands in modern literature. Very much looking forward to this role spanning 1830-present, and incorporating new resources and methods both material and digital. @engfac.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Excited to have begun a new role for this year leading the courses in material texts for the Oxford Master’s strands in modern literature. Very much looking forward to this role spanning 1830-present, and incorporating new resources and methods both material and digital. @engfac.bsky.social
Excellent to attend and speak at the British Association of Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, and to hear its inspiring roundtable from presidents past and future. Isobel Armstrong on the future of the discipline: ‘Be dauntless’. #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Excellent to attend and speak at the British Association of Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, and to hear its inspiring roundtable from presidents past and future. Isobel Armstrong on the future of the discipline: ‘Be dauntless’. #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
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One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social
If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...
If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social
If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...
If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...
‘Reading this recovered text helps us to illuminate the creative process behind works of art, but also to restore valuable parts of the world’s cultural heritage’: read full article at doi.org/10.1093/res/... @engfac.bsky.social
A new project, led by @engfac.bsky.social's Dr @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social, has recovered never before seen text by Alfred Tennyson using a combination of imaging techniques to remove crossings out, marks and ink blots.
More info ⬇️
More info ⬇️
Oxford researcher reveals hidden Alfred Tennyson text using
A new project, led by Dr Michael J Sullivan of the University of Oxford’s English Faculty, has recovered never before seen text by Alfred Tennyson using a combination of imaging techniques to remove
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March 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
‘Reading this recovered text helps us to illuminate the creative process behind works of art, but also to restore valuable parts of the world’s cultural heritage’: read full article at doi.org/10.1093/res/... @engfac.bsky.social
Delighted to publish 'Reading Behind the Lines', among the first sustained applications of multispectral processing to modern anglophone literature. We recover lost text in Tennyson's manuscripts and theorise its critical implications: doi.org/10.1093/res/... @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
March 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Delighted to publish 'Reading Behind the Lines', among the first sustained applications of multispectral processing to modern anglophone literature. We recover lost text in Tennyson's manuscripts and theorise its critical implications: doi.org/10.1093/res/... @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Call for Papers now open for BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference in Oxford. Papers, panels and roundtables are invited on any aspect of the long nineteenth century. 23-25 July, with an ECR event on 22 July – for more details and to submit, see english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 @engfac.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Call for Papers now open for BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference in Oxford. Papers, panels and roundtables are invited on any aspect of the long nineteenth century. 23-25 July, with an ECR event on 22 July – for more details and to submit, see english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 @engfac.bsky.social
Excited to have launched our project website for ‘Recovery of Literary of Manuscripts’ at Oxford yesterday. 'Recovery of Literary Manuscripts' is an interdisciplinary project applying multispectral imaging to the study of modern anglophone literature. recovery-of-literary-manuscripts.net
November 21, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Excited to have launched our project website for ‘Recovery of Literary of Manuscripts’ at Oxford yesterday. 'Recovery of Literary Manuscripts' is an interdisciplinary project applying multispectral imaging to the study of modern anglophone literature. recovery-of-literary-manuscripts.net
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Hi folks. Please request an add/share/like to join the Material Culture starter pack!
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November 9, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Hi folks. Please request an add/share/like to join the Material Culture starter pack!
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This is my humble attempt at a starter back for literary studies. Please feel free to join.
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October 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM
This is my humble attempt at a starter back for literary studies. Please feel free to join.
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Thrilled to see my article out in The Wordsworth Circle, examining a recently acquired manuscript of ‘The Barberry-Tree’ and disentangling its authorship, philosophy and prosody: doi.org/10.1086/730753
Wordsworth, Parody, and the Authorship of “The Barberry-Tree” | The Wordsworth Circle: Vol 55, No 2
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June 13, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Thrilled to see my article out in The Wordsworth Circle, examining a recently acquired manuscript of ‘The Barberry-Tree’ and disentangling its authorship, philosophy and prosody: doi.org/10.1086/730753
Excellent time at the Byron Bicentenary event at Cambridge this week — thank you very much to the organisers. @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
April 21, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Excellent time at the Byron Bicentenary event at Cambridge this week — thank you very much to the organisers. @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
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On this day 400 years ago, Shakespeare's First Folio was published!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
November 8, 2023 at 12:11 PM
On this day 400 years ago, Shakespeare's First Folio was published!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
Read the full article open advance access in the OUP journal The Review of English Studies - ‘Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’: academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse
Abstract. This article finds in the Italianate form of sesta rima an additional strand of influence on English ottava rima in the nineteenth century. It explore
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November 3, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Read the full article open advance access in the OUP journal The Review of English Studies - ‘Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’: academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
Engaging with the genesis and uses of these stanzas in a range of modern poets, the article forms a case study in experimental stanza switching and hybrid forms in Romantic and post-Romantic verse. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
November 3, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Engaging with the genesis and uses of these stanzas in a range of modern poets, the article forms a case study in experimental stanza switching and hybrid forms in Romantic and post-Romantic verse. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
Drawing together #Byron's Italian reading, his correspondence, and his manuscript experiments, the article opens up a cluster of poems between 1813 and 1816 which reveal how his movements towards ottava rima predate his arrival in Italy and intertwine with the history of sesta rima.
November 3, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Drawing together #Byron's Italian reading, his correspondence, and his manuscript experiments, the article opens up a cluster of poems between 1813 and 1816 which reveal how his movements towards ottava rima predate his arrival in Italy and intertwine with the history of sesta rima.
The research finds in the Italianate form of sesta rima an alternative strand of influence on English ottava rima and casts light on the genesis of Byron’s most celebrated verse form: the ottava rima of Don Juan and Beppo. @modernlanguage.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social
November 3, 2023 at 3:50 PM
The research finds in the Italianate form of sesta rima an alternative strand of influence on English ottava rima and casts light on the genesis of Byron’s most celebrated verse form: the ottava rima of Don Juan and Beppo. @modernlanguage.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social
Delighted that my research on the transnational drift of verse forms and the origins of Byron’s ottava rima has just been published by RES. ‘Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’: academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @bars.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
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November 3, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Delighted that my research on the transnational drift of verse forms and the origins of Byron’s ottava rima has just been published by RES. ‘Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’: academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @bars.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social