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Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural History
Read more: Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural HistoryDiscover a cross-journal special feature from Library & Information History and Archives of Natural History.
The Case for the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel
Many Mullen discusses the work of Irish novels and novelists, anachronism and nineteenth century realism.
Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration
Michael Demson discusses the essays contributed to a new edited collection on Peterloo.
Creative Involution – A Conversation
Professor S. E. Gontarski discusses his book Creative Involution and the series it is published in, Other Becketts, with Jacek Gutorow.
22 Things You Didn’t Know About Elizabeth Bishop
Celebrating the publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Elizabeth Bishop, editor Jonathan Ellis lists 22 things you didn't know about Bishop.
A perfect epitome: David Randall pens a sonnet for each of his new books
By David Randall The Concept of Conversation In Roman days the leisured noble’s speech Was conversation, sermo, where all spoke To seek out truth, with each persuading each To maintain chat by wooing phrase and joke. This style of speech…
The happiness of being sad
J.F. Bernard discusses melancholy - the happiness of being sad - through Grock the clown and Shakespeare's tragic comedies.
Blogging From Egypt: Digital Literature, 2005-2016
Since 2005, blogging has become a significant trend amid Egyptian young people. Among the many blog entries published online every day, some stand out for their innovative literary features and original contents. So far, a number of bloggers, such as…
Top 5 Representations of the Weather in Shakespeare’s plays
By Sophie Chiari In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are plagued by the dog days that overdetermine the climate of the play and turn heat into hate. Interestingly, Shakespeare’s sources all set the story in a cold winter which put forward…
Frederick Douglass and Ten Scottish Worthies
Recent research has suggested that Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. The former slave who became a leading intellectual and civil rights campaigner of his age, was captured on camera more times than George…