By Jennifer Burek Pierce Place is central to John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and to the community of…
Tag: Literary Studies
Language and Literature
Q&A with the editors of Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
by Elizabeth Amann & Michael Boyden 1. How did this book come about? Michael: This collected volume came out of a…
by Alexander Bubb It began with a case of mistaken identity. In 2016 I was growing deeply interested in The…
by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…
by Jürgen Pieters The painting on my new book’s cover was made by the Viennese artist Friedrich Frotzel (1898-1971). Its…
by Geoffrey Marsh Given that there is little information about Shakespeare’s life, people ask what made me think there was…
By Stuart Gillespie I was one of the two founding editors of this journal in 1992. Anyone involved with a…
By Stanley Gontarski American outlier writer, William S. Burroughs, was a creative force, as a writer in his own right,…
Participants in the protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota have emphasised historical continuity in the experience of racist oppression in the United States.
Towards the end of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel Normal People, the two main characters, Connell and Marianne, talk sleepily one…