Dr Corrina Readioff

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Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. Currently working on early modern whales She/her https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content https://18thcparatext.wordpress

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Screenshot of BBC iplayer description for a trailer of Count of Monte Cristo airing on BBC Four that claims this version stars Sam Claflin and Jeremy Irons, when version they are running is actually a French adaptation starring Pierre Niney and Pierfrancesco Fabiano in those roles
Photo of green knitted cardigan on a red background
Photo of book by Anita Anand, “Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary”. Cover image is b&w photo of a woman of Indian heritage selling copies of the Suffragette magazine.
Screenshot from playmobil website of a delightfully cute pot-bellied pig tucking in to a food trough, surrounded by some other farmyard animals including a sheep and a cow.
Screenshot from IMDB of Tom Baker’s doctor in a legal wig, conversing with a being that looks like a twinkling star hovering at head height
Photo of seminar room with Dr Cat Beck presenting. Presentation slide on the screen depicts a highlighted 18th century manuscript underneath the topic heading “role of the state: unfit”. Accompanying text explains the legal definition of “unserviceable” as “unfit for service; no longer able to perform duty”. The background image is a spectacular sailing ship tossed on a stormy sea.
Photo of the cover of the book 'Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers' edited by Serena Dyer and Chloe Wigston Smith, published by Bloomsbury. Cover image is eighteenth-century painting depicting upper class women crafting together.
Photo out of a hotel window with a view of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and a young seagull standing on the broad stone window ledge outside.
Gold and green hardback cover of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Close-up photo of tubular spiral peyote stitch in shades of blue, gold metallic, and dark brown
Photo of journal article first page with cuddly whale. Article title 'The Tale of a Whale: A Digression Upon Frontispieces in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub (1704)' in Swift Studies, 39 (2024), 8-56
Crossword book open at first puzzle; text of first entered answer spells “whale”
Screenshot of eBay ad photo of postcard depicting poster for the film 'Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon in Color' - songs advertised include 'Gulliver's March', 'Song of the Earth' and 'Robot's March'. Music by Milton Delugg, lyrics by Anne Delugg. Tagline 'Blast of with Gulliver and his Friends - to a colourful world of fantasy and song...' Images of the characters are included, e.g. 'The Robot'
Screenshot of Baked Clay ad for “The Maria dress from to £75.00 This dress is named after Maria Mitchell, the first female astronomer.”
Screenshot of text reading: “Twas the night before BSECS and all through St Hugh’s Not a scholar was stirring as peaceful they snooze. The papers were written, the slides all prepared Delightful new research, about to be shared.”
View across bridge with empty bench and Windsor castle in the distance
Portrait of Jonathan Swift writing
Photo of a German Jane Austen advent calendar
Poster for exhibition at University of Muenster Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies. Text reads: 'The Tale of Swift's Whale: Three Hundred Years of Whale Imagery in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub (1704); Exhibition at the English Department Library, Second Floor Johannisstr. 12-20, 48143 Muenster.' Image is of the frontispiece to Swift's Tale of a Tub depicting the whale distracted by a barrel.
Screenshot of Etsy page advertising 1800 “rare antique dolphin whale engraving l’histoire naturelle” for £45.68. The whale is broadly accurate but the dolphin resembles a large fish resting on top of the water (seriously, it’s very fish like, no bottlenose in sight!)
Cover of book Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850: Seducing the Reader, by Corrina Readioff. Cover image is late eighteenth-century engraving depicting a woman reading a book beside a country stile whilst a man reads over her shoulder.
photo of book Corrina Readioff, Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850: Seducing the Reader, posed open with a cute teddy bear sporting a University of Liverpool jumper.