Once known primarily as the author of ‘twee’ children’s books about fastidious mice and naughty rabbits, Beatrix Potter has gained recognition in recent years for her wide-ranging accomplishments as a conservationist, mycologist and scientific illustrator. In the 1890s, before embarking…
Audrey Murfin explores Robert Louis Stevenson and his methods of Character Creation
Making Renaissance Literature Matter Now: Wendy Beth Hyman and Hillary Eklund discuss five practical strategies for pursuing justice in the classroom
Lisa Starks and the contributors discuss their interest in Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre.
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Matthew James Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton discuss, in conversation, how the volume 'Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama' came about.
Many Mullen discusses the work of Irish novels and novelists, anachronism and nineteenth century realism.
by Chris Townsend The Irish philosopher George Berkeley was not a contemporary of William Wordsworth — he died in 1753, almost thirty years prior to Wordsworth’s birth — but his philosophical and spiritual thinking still exerts a traceable influence over…
The first issue of Gothic Studies published by EUP is also the first ever issue devoted to werewolves. In the twenty-first century, the era of late capitalism, new werewolf myths have emerged from our cultural memory around humans and wolves.…