Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.
A Q&A with Jenna Clake, author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry.
by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a lover, like Juliet, or a warrior, like Macbeth. He’s a drunken beggar. And he’s incensed that the hostess of the tavern…
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at the council chamber. “[The] town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep,” Pawkie remembers, “and nothing was heard but the…
by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise In the following quiz, each answer is related to a particular chapter of The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. We hope, as a result, that this fun test will enable you…
by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…
A Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
Did Australia invent the idea of the avant-garde?
Cora Crampton explores a lesser-known aspect of W. B. Yeats’s oeuvre - his collaboration with Frank O’Connor in the translation of Irish language poetry during the 1930s.
by David Rando Tell us a bit about On Fiction and Being a Good Animal. On Fiction and Being a Good Animal begins with a question: what if fiction could help us to become not better people but better animals?…