MADS reading group: new programme

The new Mads reading group programme for the winter term 2025/26 has just been published:

  • 6 October 2025: Joyce/Beckett writing women: Molly Bloom and Smeraldina 
  • 5 November 2025:Richard Aldington, A Fool i’ the Forest  and other poems
  • 4 December 2025: Edith Sitwell, The Wooden Pegasus 
  • 7 January 2026: Vernon Lee, ‘Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady’ 
  • 3 February 2026: Geographical emotions in Bryher’s memoir The Heart to Artemis 

All meetings take place online via zoom, from 7-8 pm (Berlin time). The link and materials for each session will be circulated one week in advance through our mailing list. Each session begins with a brief, informal introduction to the topic before the meeting is opened up to general discussion.

To join the mailing list, receive the texts and hear about future sessions, email madsreadinggroup@gmail.com

All welcome!

MADS is an international-facing network of Germany-based scholars researching in the field of Modernism, Aestheticism and Decadence Studies. More information on the network can be found here: https://madsnetworkcom.wordpress.com/ 

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