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Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural History
Read more: Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural HistoryDiscover a cross-journal special feature from Library & Information History and Archives of Natural History.
What is extra in the ordinary, and why is the intimate often strange?
Eret Talviste explores Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys through scenes of solitude and ordinary freedom.
Cats and Other ‘Slightly Magical’ Phenomena in Slightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s
A Q&A with Lucy McDiarmid on her new book exploring Irish poetry’s ‘slightly magical’ worlds.
American Poets Traveled to Europe and It Shaped Modern Literary History
Elin Käck discusses the role of American poets’ travels to Europe in the evolution of modern American poetry and literary history in general.
Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender – Q&A with the author
A Q&A with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike on Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender, exploring Nigerian masculinities, ethics, and gender in literature.
Violence in Brontë Afterlives
Explore five adaptations of Brontë novels that amplify violence, from Wuthering Heights to Jane Eyre, reshaping the Brontës’ enduring cultural impact.
Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher
Dr Lauren Alex O’Hagan explores the overlooked literary depth of Rory Gallagher’s lyrics, arguing for their place within a unique hardboiled blues tradition.
Professionalisation and the New Woman: Q&A with Riya Das, editor of the critical edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus
Riya Das discusses the making of her fully annotated edition of Mona Caird’s immensely successful novel, The Daughters of Danaus.
Envy and the Politics of Reading
How did early modern writers link envy in print culture to politics and community?
James Boswell and the ‘Whisperers’
by John Eglin James Boswell, like a number of wealthy and well-connected British travelers in Italy, could expect to move in elevated social circles as he went from city to city. In common with many of his fellow tourists, he…