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A conversation with Demet Çaltekin on ‘Conscientious Objection in Turkey’
Read moreby Demet Aslı Çaltekin Can you tell us a bit about Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the…
The Burns Supper: A New Field of Study
By Dr Paul Malgrati Over the past 220 years, the Burns Supper has become the quintessential festival of Scottish culture,…
An extract from “Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber”
by Xiaofei Shi and Labao Wang Does Chinese children’s literature have a prehistory? While it is presumptuous to date the…
Six Romantic Objects: Occasional Poems and Everyday Things
By Christopher Stokes Skylarks, clouds, roses, rivers. What one of my undergraduate students once memorably termed the ‘flowers and s**t’…
The Holocaust and Climate Change: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep
by Dr Richard Ashby Dr Richard Ashby analyses the 2010 Dennis Kelly play The Gods Weep, showing that playwright Dennis…
A Cannibal Poet In King James’ Court
By Brett Andrew Jones It wasn’t every day that accusations of cannibalism flew around the early Jacobean court. That’s (one…
The Importance of Place
By Jennifer Burek Pierce Place is central to John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and to the community of…
Using digital technology to uncover ‘invisible’ patterns in language and society
By Adnan Ajšić If you have seen the 1999 movie The Matrix, you will remember the green code tumbling down…
Q&A with the editors of Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
by Elizabeth Amann & Michael Boyden 1. How did this book come about? Michael: This collected volume came out of a…
Souvenirs of the Victorian Global Bookshelf
by Alexander Bubb It began with a case of mistaken identity. In 2016 I was growing deeply interested in The…