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  • Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?

    How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.

    July 31, 2025
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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.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 10, 2025

A career in crime: Dr Eric Sandberg reflects on research in crime fiction studies

I came to crime fiction studies through the back door. Like many people, I grew up reading mysteries. Franklin W. Dixon’s Hardy Boys series was an early favourite – I coveted the small blue hardcovers with a greedy passion, and…

  • Teri Williams
  • February 27, 2020

A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s use of direct thought presentation

by  Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known for their simplicity, being frequently characterized by a repeated use of either a striking phrase that dominates their speech (such…

  • Rebecca Wojturska
  • November 23, 2018
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Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés – Part 2

By Julian Wolfreys This ‘valedictory’ editorial appears on the EUP Blog in two parts and is published in Volume 7 of Victoriographies, a journal of Victorian writing in the long 19th century, 1790-1914. <Read Part One The point of this…

  • Teri Williams
  • February 17, 2017
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Julian Wolfreys photo

Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés – Part 1

By Julian Wolfreys This ‘valedictory’ editorial  (on the significance of Victorian) appears on the EUP Blog in two parts and is published in Victoriographies Volume 7.    People soak up time like sponges. They steep themselves in it, amass it…

  • Teri Williams
  • February 6, 2017

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