Daniel Williams

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Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com

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Join us tomorrow to learn about 🧐philosophy, the 💥apocalypse, and the 🌎environment! Ted Toadvine "The Memory of the World: Unraveling the Allure of Eco-Apocalypse" CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future Talks Wed, May 29, 2024 Online Register here: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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🌞A good day to contemplate Larkin’s quirky but moving poem, “Solar”: “Single stalkless flower / You pour unrecompensed”🌞

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🌞Gerard Manley Hopkins on a solar eclipse shortly before his conversion: “I saw it all up the City Road, to such a pass have natural phenomena come.”🌞

🌞A good day to contemplate Larkin’s quirky but moving poem, “Solar”: “Single stalkless flower / You pour unrecompensed”🌞

🌞Gerard Manley Hopkins on a solar eclipse shortly before his conversion: “I saw it all up the City Road, to such a pass have natural phenomena come.”🌞

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Excited to announce the latest book in our Victorian Studies series at Ohio University Press: Love among the Poets: The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy Edited by Pearl Chaozon Bauer and Erik Gray www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425442/ Table of Contents attached!

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publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

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And I argue that reading for uncertainty in this way yields a rich account of the dynamics of thinking and acting in the Victorian novel, a fresh understanding of realism as a genre of the probable, + a vision of literary-critical judgment as provisional and open-ended. cambridge.org/9781009436113

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In imaginative explorations of unsure reasoning, hesitant judgment, and makeshift action, Victorian novelists cultivated distinctive responses to uncertainty as intellectual concern and cultural disposition + participated in the knowledge work of an era shaped by numbers cambridge.org/9781009436113

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🌞The Art of Uncertainty🌞 shows how Victorian novelists—Eliot, Collins, Thackeray, Hardy, and later Conrad—drew on science, math, philosophy, and the law to develop unique forms of thinking, judging, and acting in the face of uncertainty. cambridge.org/9781009436113: 20% off w/ TAU2024

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✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP! Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024 Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!

5th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥 is open! Please share/RT! Wider remit than before, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945”… Consider submitting a paper by Jan. 31, 2024, for $250!

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Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.

An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Reviewwww.bostonreview.net The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Ruskin slashes Renaissance painters, unwittingly slays X: “There is little harm in their works being purchased at high prices: their real influence is very slight, and they may be left without grave indignation to their poor mission of furnishing drawing-rooms and assisting stranded conversation.”

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How to make a decorous entrance to Bluesky, according to Thomas Carlyle: “If John Mill were to get up to heaven, he would hardly be content till he had made out how it all was. For my part, I don’t trouble myself about the machinery of the place...”

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