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The Complete Scottish Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham
Read more: The Complete Scottish Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame GrahamCunninghame Graham's great-grandnephew reveals his favourite sketch of the celebrated Scottish writer
Carla Hepburn
Living Modernly’s Living Quickly: A Note on Travelling Light
By Emily Ridge He who travels light is in a fair way to travel happily. But the happy state is not compassed without effort. There must first be wisdom in selecting the absolutely necessary, determination in discarding all else, and…
Chastity and Capitalism, from Shakespeare’s England to Trump’s America
By Katherine Gillen Interest in Shakespeare’s economic philosophy intensified in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, reaching beyond academic circles into public discourse. For example, New York’s Public Theater hosted an event called “What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money and…
An unfinished masterpiece by Robert Louis Stevenson
By Gillian Hughes Many of Stevenson’s longer works of fiction might be characterised as historical novels: in Weir of Hermiston Stevenson excavates Edinburgh’s Golden Age, that of Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg, and also its surviving physical traces in the…
Unwomanly women? Gender and technology at the end of the nineteenth century
By Lena Wånggren What is an ‘unwomanly’ woman? Or an ‘unsexed’ woman? At the end of the nineteenth century, both these terms were common invectives for any woman who went against the established gender ideals of the time. Meanwhile, some…
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000
Where is the twenty-first century British novel headed? The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 answers this question in the light of three recent literary developments. The first is aesthetic: early twentieth-first century novelists are going beyond conventional realism, and in…