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Interview with Maggie Humm
Read more: Interview with Maggie HummMaggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.
It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest
One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government…
10 Things to Count on when Working on Literature and Mathematics
By Nina Engelhardt 1. Contrast Mentioning ‘literature and mathematics’ in one breath often leads to raised eyebrows and reminders of…
Ninteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria
An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…
Walter Scott the “mighty minstrel” and Marmion
Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…
You Don’t Know Jacques: Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and the Denial of Deconstruction
Fifty years have passed since the publication of Of Grammatology, and the Oxford Literary Review has dedicated its July 2018…
Studying sixteenth-century France from inside and outside France
My guest edited special issue of Nottingham French Studies (NFS), explores ‘Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France‘, fleshing out…
A Q&A with Nataša Kovačević, author of Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe
Tell us a bit about Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe The book analyses cultural narratives…
Finn Fordham on the Anatomy of Moments
Singing in a choir recently I was lucky enough to experience some intense moments, and less lucky in my attempts…
Rediscovering the Wonder of Philosophy
Wonder is largely absent as a topic of concern to contemporary philosophers. Yet ancient philosophers saw it as the source…