‘How do you do it? I am dazzled’, enthused Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Muriel Spark in 1960. Spark’s…
Category: Post 19th Century Literary Studies
Tell us a bit about Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism Well, my book takes a fresh look at the literature of…
By Tessa Roynon In recent weeks, the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. has been much in the public eye. Whether…
By Derek King C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces is a brilliant piece of fiction but also a mediation…
By Tom Ue Dash & Lily (2020-), Netflix’s charming new adaptation of Rachel Cohn’s and David Levithan’s popular YA series…
By Stanley Gontarski American outlier writer, William S. Burroughs, was a creative force, as a writer in his own right,…
By Jemma Stewart Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series. Rose Roses…have ever reigned as queens of…
By Jemma Stewart Read Part 1 of this blog series. Lotus And as the voice spoke, a cold hand touched…
By Jemma Stewart H. Rider Haggard’s Gothic Garden In the Gothic Studies articles ‘Blooming Marvel’ and ‘She shook her heavy…
Poetry aficionados, media archaeologists and scholars of modernism might have heard of the ‘godfather of the e-reader’ Bob Brown, and his infamous ‘Reading Machine’ – but his wife Rose is an equally compelling figure. In fact, her story changes how we understand the connections between technological and literary innovation, and their capacity to promote social change, and with one exception, it has remained untold.