By Gillian Hughes Many of Stevenson’s longer works of fiction might be characterised as historical novels: in Weir of Hermiston Stevenson…
Tag: Literary Studies
By Lynne Pearce Quite apart from its utility as a means of transport – or, indeed, its significance as a…
By Lynne Pearce Both in the news and among those academics whose work is concerned with transport futures there appears…
By David Barnes With President Obama’s intervention in the British EU Referendum debate still fresh in the mind, it’s worth…
By Claire White In France, the turn of the millennium ushered in a bold, and controversial, act of legal reform…
By Bill Angus If you have ever wondered what was really going on in the secret overhearing and tacit observations,…
By Sean McEvoy William Shakespeare died four hundred years ago. We know he departed this life on 23 April 1616…
By Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne What is it about Shakespeare’s writing that makes it endure? Why do his plays and poems…
By Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Sherlock Holmes, “the most portrayed literary human character in film and TV” (Guinness World Records News), is…
By Kelly Stage In 1605, Ben Jonson and George Chapman found themselves in prison because parts of their play Eastward…