School of English and Drama: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
“Pray send back this foul proof:” Thomas Birch and the correction of Elizabeth Carter’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explain’d for the Use of the Ladies (1739)
In 1739, Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) published Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explain’d for the Use of the Ladies, a translation of Francesco Algarotti’s Il Newtonianismo per le Dame (1737). This article discusses the role ... -
Doing the Amateur Casual: Victorian Investigative Journalism and the Legacy of James Greenwood’s 'A Night in a Workhouse'
This essay examines the impact of James Greenwood’s “A Night in a Workhouse by an Amateur Casual” (1866) on the emergence of investigative journalism. Whereas the American press is often credited with the invention of ... -
Delete the Idea Down: James Lee Byars and the Performance of Abbreviation
A self-described “momenteer,” James Lee Byars (1932–1997) is arguably best remembered for the extravagant, imposing, and durable sculptural works he made in the 1980s and 1990s, typically using marble, bronze, glass, or ... -
Laura Moretti, Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth‐Century Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xvi + 416 pp. $40.00 / £34.00. ISBN 9780231197236 (pb).
(2021-03-11)This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Raymond, J. (2021), Moretti, Laura, Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth‐Century Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xvi + 416 pp. ...