School of English and Drama: Recent submissions
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A Fragment of a Lost Chanson de geste
The Broxbourne collection in the Bodleian Library is a collection of rare binding specimens presented to the Library in 1978 through the Friends of the National Libraries by John Ehrman, in memory of his father. Broxb. ... -
A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall's Hyphenated Practice: Toward an Interdependent Model of Reading
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020)When literary critics approach highly experimental works, we are confronted with a problem: it is not clear to us what the work means. Readers of such work often find themselves bereft. We don’t know what to do when we ... -
Reading for Queer Openings: Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah.
(Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020)Fred Wah is a writer of the contemporary, not the archive. He writes poetry “as a way of reading and thinking” (Faking It 1). I read his poetry as a way of thinking and writing. My focus therefore is on “the archive effect” ... -
Romantic Pedagogies in the 2020s: Editors’ Note
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Unpacking Harriet Newell’s Library
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“For here, we have not an enduring city, but we are looking for the city to come”: Dysgraphia of disaster and wayward Black futures in Jay Bernard’s Surge (2019)
(2022-01-01)Building upon Christina Sharpe’s concept of “dysgraphia of disaster”, this article interrogates how Jay Bernard’s poetry collection Surge commemorates all young Black British people who died prematurely in the New Cross ... -
Babel textuelle. La textualité et la diversité dans le monde de Montaigne / Textual Babel. Textuality and diversity in the world of Montaigne
(Classiques Garnier, 2022)The concepts of “textuality” and “diversity” have received important treatment from a predominantly philosophical viewpoint in Francophone criticism. A current project on the literary history of Europe provides the opportunity ... -
Instead of children: Legacy and embodied interpretation in the woodwardian museum
(2021-09-01)John Woodward’s collection of geological specimens, bequeathed to Cambridge University in 1728, was one of the first public institutional collections of its kind. The collector himself led a checkered career and was ... -
Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable
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Ralph Ellison and the Divergent African American Claims on Henry James
(Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers, 2021)This essay collection views the work of Ralph Ellison through a transnational lens. -
The legacy of literary reflexivity; or, the benefits of doubt
(2021-01-01)Literary reflexivity entered the twenty-first century trailed by a cluster of negative connotations and affects. Precipitated by popular distaste for postmodern metafiction, this bad reputation has been reinforced by the ...
