Browsing Department of English by Title
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Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
(2019-08-15) -
Andrzej Gąsiorek, A History of Modernist Literature
(2017-05-01) -
An Anglo-Saxon World View? The Cotton mappa mundi reassessed
This article examines the sources, content, and function of the eleventh-century Cotton mappa mundi (also known as the “Tiberius” or “Anglo-Saxon” world map). It argues against the notion that the map represents a ... -
Archiving Islam in Nadeem Aslam’s Libraries
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-10-02) -
Atossa to Pansie: Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, and their Cats
(The Internation Walter Pater Society, 2022-12-01) -
'An author in form': Women writers, print publication, and Elizabeth Montagu's Dialogues of the Dead
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)Eighteenth-century women writers repeatedly expressed resistance to the public exposure of print publication. The first publication of the bluestocking intellectual Elizabeth Montagu, three satirical dialogues included in ... -
Automation Anxiety
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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 ... -
Beit Agatha: Reading the Contemporary Middle East in Agatha Christie's Novels
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Botanical Networking: Four Holograph Letters from Charlotte Smith to James Edward Smith
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020-03-23)<jats:p> Four holograph letters from the poet and novelist Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) to the botanist James Edward Smith (no relation) have recently come to light. They are published here in full for the first time, with ... -
Brexit, the pandemic and the battle with language: An interview with Daljit Nagra
(2022-01-01)This interview with the well-known poet Daljit Nagra was conducted in summer 2022 by Claire Chambers, with Rachael Gilmour providing questions in absentia due to a bout of coronavirus. In it, the three discuss such issues ... -
Brick Lane: A Materialist Reading of the Novel and its Reception
(Sage, 2010-10)Monica Ali’s 2003 novel Brick Lane was feted by the literary establishment but prompted protests on Brick Lane itself. In a now familiar pattern, such protests were generally regarded as reflecting a conflict between ... -
Byron’s Rhyming Clime
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-04-01)