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Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms
Read more: Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reformsby Senthorun Raj Do I feel proud? This was a question I reflected on recently while gathered with several sweaty […]
5 reasons why Dickens wasn’t a bad playwright
The editors of The Plays of Charles Dickens discuss five arguments in defense of Dickens's dramatic works.
Is There Such a Thing as an Irish Female Child?
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty discusses the Irish female developmental story.
New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart Dunmore
Stuart Dunmore discusses his motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.
Techno-Cognitivism: Reimagining Literature in the Age of Language Models
Maciej Kurzynski discusses how embracing new language models can revolutionise literary studies.
Freedom and the Sea
What is the point of the connection between sea power and liberty?
How long has there been a “modern” English literature?
by A. Robert Lee In this ambitious new study A. Robert Lee tackles the question of how, and why, a given selection of English literary writings can assume the mantle of “modern.” To this end Moderns – Chaucer to Contemporary…
Q&A with the author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry
A Q&A with Jenna Clake, author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry.
Shakespeare’s Instability
by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a lover, like Juliet, or a warrior, like Macbeth. He’s a drunken beggar. And he’s incensed that the hostess of the tavern…
Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at the council chamber. “[The] town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep,” Pawkie remembers, “and nothing was heard but the…