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Digital Thoreau<p>New on the Digital Thoreau blog: Bob Young discusses Thoreau's fourth and final climb of Mount Monadnock, and explores the map of Monadnock that Thoreau drew in his Journal entry of August 9, 1860. Complete with high-resolution images of the Journal and a StoryMapJS tour of the map. <a href="https://digitalthoreau.org/blog/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">digitalthoreau.org/blog/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/thoreau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thoreau</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/manuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/americanlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americanlit</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/dh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dh</span></a></p>
Rachel Kirby<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Question" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Question</span></a>: If you were to assign or recommend one <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>book</span></a> about/from the US <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/South" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>South</span></a>, what would it be and why? Asking partially out of curiosity and partially to get the wheels turning for a syllabus. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/syllabus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>syllabus</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SouthernStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthernStudies</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SouthernLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthernLit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SouthernHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthernHistory</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmericanStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanStudies</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmericanLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SyllabusPrep" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SyllabusPrep</span></a></p>
grantrosson<p>Had never come across Thomas Mayne Reid before, but apparently this <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/c19" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>c19</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmericanLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLit</span></a> author had a major 20thC afterlife in Soviet states. Any <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Reid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reid</span></a> heads out there!?</p>
Monica Sousa<p>To make connections: name things that interest you but aren&#39;t in your profile, as tags that are searchable. Then boost/repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. <br />*Some of these are in my profile*<br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/animalstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>animalstudies</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/posthumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>posthumanism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/speculativefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>speculativefiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/contemporarylit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>contemporarylit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ethicsofcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethicsofcare</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/americanlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>americanlit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/gothichorror" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gothichorror</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dystopianlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dystopianlit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/postapocalypticlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>postapocalypticlit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/womenswriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>womenswriting</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/genderstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genderstudies</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ecocriticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ecocriticism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/southerngothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>southerngothic</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cats</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/agestudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>agestudies</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/thrillers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>thrillers</span></a></p>
Sheila Liming<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a> INCOMING</p><p>Hi, I’m Sheila. </p><p>I’m an <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/EdithWharton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EdithWharton</span></a> impersonator (aka English professor), paid funeral attendee (aka <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bagpiper" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bagpiper</span></a>), all-purpose nuisance (aka <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accordion</span></a> player) and general layabout (aka <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writer</span></a>) interested in a whole mess of things including <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/C19Studies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>C19Studies</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/americanlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>americanlit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookhistory</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/cnf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cnf</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/mediatheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mediatheory</span></a> etc etc etc </p><p>Really bad at this social media stuff and getting worse every day. Pleased to meet you.</p>
Nate Wolff<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> Hi everyone I&#39;m Nate Wolff, assoc. prof of English at Tufts where I teach 19th century <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmericanLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLit</span></a>. I wrote a book about political emotion in the Gilded Age novel. I like the book <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MobyDick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MobyDick</span></a> by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HermanMelville" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HermanMelville</span></a>. I also like to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fish</span></a>. I like to, uh, toot about amateur <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dentistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dentistry</span></a> in <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a> and Moby-Dick. And <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fishing</span></a>. I especially like to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fish</span></a> for a <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SpecificFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpecificFish</span></a> that I <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hate</span></a>. It&#39;s a long story!! imho it&#39;s so normal to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hate</span></a> a fish bc they act with <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/premeditated" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>premeditated</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/malice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>malice</span></a></p>