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  • Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Q&A with the author

    Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

    February 11, 2026
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The Pharmakon of Shame

Séan Kennedy and Joseph Valente, editors of Irish Shame, explore the intricate relationship between empathy and shame in this blog.

  • Edinburgh University Press
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Five essential Shakespeare plays on radio

Discover five standout audio productions of Shakespeare's works, picked by Andrea Smith, author of Shakespeare on the Radio.

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Enit K Steiner, the author of Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century, discusses the making of her book in this blog.

  • Edinburgh University Press
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Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan discuss their exciting new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.

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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.

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Jane Elizabeth Dougherty discusses the Irish female developmental story.

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Freedom and the Sea

What is the point of the connection between sea power and liberty?

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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…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 26, 2025
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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.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 21, 2025
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