Did Early Modern People Believe in “Gut Feelings”?
Discover how Renaissance writers understood instinct through occult science, supernatural forces, and early modern theatre.
Q&A with Kathrin Yacavone, author of Intermedial Authorship
Explore how photography, celebrity culture, and visual media have transformed our understanding of literary authorship.
6 Things About Irish Literature and Periodical Culture You Probably Didn’t Know
Discover six surprising facts about Irish literature, from James Joyce to forgotten writers and literary magazines.
Arthur Conan Doyle in Egypt
Discover how Arthur Conan Doyle’s travels in Egypt inspired his fiction, from ancient mummies and Gothic tales to imperial adventure and the supernatural.
Structural Bias, Education Reform, and Victorian Women’s Poetry
How did nineteenth-century British school textbooks help to institutionalise gender bias and erase women poets from literary history?
From Multiple Possible Worlds to Fission-Fusion Experience
From quantum theory to literary immersion, this blog examines how fission-fusion connects language, consciousness, and human experience.
Repetition After Originality: Why Saying It Again Still Matters
This blog rethinks repetition in literature, showing how repeated forms can generate innovation, disrupt meaning, and reshape poetic practice.
Contesting Language in the Seventeenth Century—and Now
From Milton to modern politics, this blog explores how language in the seventeenth century influenced struggles over authority, belief, and freedom.
Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’
This interview explores how John Bull became a literary and political figure in Victorian newspaper poetry during the American Civil War and the Cotton Famine.