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Children, Charity and Magazines
Read more: Children, Charity and MagazinesA Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan: The Book that Took 50 Years to Write
by Mitchell Allen Bill outlined his vision for our book almost half a century ago as we sat at the foldup dinner table in a domed room of the compound of Hajji Nafaz Khan, ruler of the village Khwaja ‘Ali…
Heritage and Identity: Debunking 5 myths about Middle Eastern Christians
By Elizabeth Marteijn Recent tragedies in the Middle East brought more attention to Christians living in the region. Events such as a series of popular uprisings (‘Arab Spring’) and humanitarian disasters in countries such as Syria and Iraq, have made…
Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada: Q&A with Ned Curthoys and Isabelle Hesse
In this interview, Ned Curthoys and Isabelle Hesse, editors of Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada, discuss their new book. Tell us a bit about your book. Our edited collection Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict…
5 places where modernism survived
Adapting or recasting the formal experiments of their modernist forebears...Here is a brief tour of five places where modernism survived well into the second half of the twentieth century.
“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 2)
by Tom Ue Continued from Part 1 Your integration of The Taming of the Shrew when describing Rhoda and Everard is so clever, but have you thought about reading—as Gissing does—Widdowson’s and Monica’s story in terms of Othello? Yes, I…
“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 1)
by Tom Ue George Gissing’s novel The Odd Women (1893) opens, in 1872, with Dr Madden declaring his intention to insure his life for a thousand pounds. Things are looking up for the family. “[P]rofessional prospects,” he assures his eldest…
Researching the History of British Film Finance
by James Chapman Big research projects take a while to bear fruit. In the case of The Money Behind the Screen, it was the best part of nine years. The book’s origins extend back to the summer of 2013, when…
Surveying the Anthropocene: Endangered wildlife: the threats to seabirds, and the use of rephotography
by Patricia Macdonald This is the second of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now, edited by Patricia Macdonald (for an introduction to the book, see Q & A…
The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship
This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.